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Mark and Marie
In 2016 we booked a reasonably late deal cruise on the fairly new ship Royal Princess for a week in the Mediterranean. Mediterranean cruises are port-intensive ones so we had a stop on the very first day at Naples. We opted to take a tour that visited a cameo workshop then took us on a guided walk around Herculaneum. Herculaneum, like Pompeii, was buried under volcanic ash in 79 CE when Vesuvius erupted.

#Travel #Photography #TravelPhotography #Italy #Herculaneum #Ercolano #Naples #History #Roman #Vesuvius #Volcano #Cruise
We're in the ruins of an ancient Roman city looking along a narrow street between buildings. The walls either side aren't fully intact with parts barely above head height and they're made of pale, sandy-coloured bricks, mostly arranged as expected but some at angles to form diamond or diagonal patterns. The street consists of narrow strips of flat, raised pavement either side of a recessed surface with a slight curve on it up towards the centre, made of larger blocks of cobblestones. It's about the width of a cart pulled by a single horse. There are some tourists gathered towards the end of the street and one woman is walking this way on the opposite pavement to us. A raised bank at the end of the street is topped by tall thin trees against the patchy sky and more trees at ground level can be seen over the top of the corner of the wall to the left of us. A sign on the wall reads "Insula VI."
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Archaeology News :verified:

Ancient “glass brain” mystery: how Mount Vesuvius turned a man’s brain to glass

In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted, killing thousands. One victim, a man in his early twenties, was found in bed inside a building known as the Collegium Augustalium. Scientists uncovered his remains in the 1960s and made a baffling discovery—his skull contained fragments of what appeared to be a black, glass-like material...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/03/anc

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Ancient “glass brain” mystery: how Mount Vesuvius turned a man’s brain to glass In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted with devastating consequences, wiping out the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum and killing thousands. One victim, a man in his early twenties, was found in bed inside a building called the Collegium Augustalium. Scientists uncovered his remains in the 1960s and stumbled upon a baffling discovery—his skull contained pieces of what looked like black, glass-like material. A recent study published in Scientific Reports offers new insights into how his brain might have undergone a remarkable transformation, turning to glass through a process known as vitrification...
#archaeology#herculaneum
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Storie&Archeostorie

💀🔥 𝐄𝐫𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐚n𝐨, 𝐢𝐥 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐟𝐢n𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚 𝐬𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐚: 𝐢𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 "𝐒𝐭𝐚n𝐳𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐂𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐞" 𝐝𝐞𝐠𝐥𝐢 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢 𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐩𝐫𝐞 𝐮n 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐨

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#archeologia #scoperte #studi #ercolano #herculaneum #archhaeology

storiearcheostorie.com/2025/03

Storie & Archeostorie · Ercolano, il restauro della Stanza del Custode riapre un cold case archeologico
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De Archeoloog

De #hersenen van een #Romein die in de jaren 60 in #Herculaneum is gevonden en die slachtoffer was van de uitbarsting van de #Vesuvius in 79 n.Chr. blijken door de vulkaanuitbarsting in #glas te zijn veranderd. Bij onderzoek van het skelet in 2018 ontdekte een forensisch #antropoloog kleine glasachtige resten in de vulkanische as die de schedel vulde. Onderzoekers concluderen nu in een recent gepubliceerd onderzoek dat het gaat om ‘glazen’ hersenweefsel.
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De Morgen · Wereldprimeur door ‘zwarte glinstering’ in schedel: hersenen veranderden in glas na uitbarsting van de VesuviusDe hersenen van een man in Herculaneum zijn door de Vesuvius-uitbarsting in glas veranderd. Dat ontdekten wetenschappers aan de hand van een zwarte glinstering in zijn schedel. ‘Een wereldprimeur.’
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"A unique dark-coloured organic glass, found inside the skull of an individual who died in Herculaneum during the 79 CE Mount Vesuvius eruption, likely formed when they were killed by a very hot but short-lived ash cloud. The conclusion, from research published in Scientific Reports, is based on an analysis of the physical properties of the glass, thought to comprise the fossilised brain of the individual".

#archaeology #glass #herculaneum #mountvesuvius
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EurekAlert!Archaeology: Vesuvian ash cloud turned brain to glassA unique dark-coloured organic glass, found inside the skull of an individual who died in Herculaneum during the 79 CE Mount Vesuvius eruption, likely formed when they were killed by a very hot but short-lived ash cloud. The conclusion, from research published in Scientific Reports...
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AI reveals first look inside 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll

One of the world’s oldest scrolls, dating back two millennia, originating from the lost Roman city of Herculaneum, long considered unreadable because of the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, has yielded the first decipherable words thanks to new technology...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/02/ai-

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AI reveals first look inside 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll One of the world’s oldest scrolls, dating back two millennia, originating from the lost Roman city of Herculaneum, long considered unreadable because of the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, has yielded the first decipherable words thanks to new technology. By employing artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced X-ray imaging techniques, scientists have been able to virtually unroll the fragile papyrus and reveal lost words in ancient Greek. The charred scroll, known as PHerc. 172, is among many unearthed at the Herculaneum ruins, a city that, like Pompeii, was destroyed in the eruption. The intense heat carbonized the scrolls, making them too brittle to physically open. Among the first words deciphered from PHerc. 172 are ἀδιάληπτος (‘foolish’), διατροπή (‘disgust’), φοβ (‘fear’), and βίου (‘life’). All of these words suggest that the scroll could be a work of the philosopher and poet Philodemus of Gadara, one of the leading Epicureans of the 1st century BCE...
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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

A Minute-By-Minute Account Of The Pompeii Eruption, Revealed In Agonizing Detail
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doi.org/10.1144/jgs2024-071 <-- shared paper
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photo - parts of excavated Pompeii, Italy
map and stratigraphic columns - reconstructed for the Plinian and post-Plinian fall deposits of the CE79 eruption of Vesuvius
maps and stratigraphic columns - reconstructed for the investigated pyroclastic deposits of the CE79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius
maps / model results - lateral facies distribution of all the CE79 units
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Erotic Mythology 🌹

Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka aka Tuesday 🗡️

"For you [Venus] alone have mastery to share
Your peace with us, since Mars, who governs all
Affairs of savage war, will often fall
Into your lap, by constant love subdued"
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura

🏛 Roman #fresco depicting #Mars & #Venus, found in #Herculaneum. Dated to the 1st century CE. Currently in the National Archaeological Museum #Naples.

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#DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology

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