Collapsed under its weight
In the world, where everything changes every minute and nothing is safe any more, there are no guarantees we wont be crashed any minute soon, the plane or ship will just crash, even if technology is so much forward, it’s out of our control to prognoses these catastrophes. Same as happened on August 20, A.D. 79, Pompeii was rocked by more earth tremors, although they do not seem to have been as severe as the 62 earthquake.Some Wise man once said, that looking to Pompeii after few thousands of years, it will be a place where people will come from all over the world, they will talk in hundred different languages and look at Pompeii’s dead city!And he was right, now Pompeii is undoubtedly one of the world’s best known archaeological sites. Sadly, it’s fame comes from its dramatic destruction and extraordinary preservation as a result of an eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Pliny the Younger said that a 12-mile high cloud of ash and rock was thrown into the air, blocking out the sun. By chance, the wind was blowing from the Northwest, so when the volcanic matter began to fall, it was blown in the direction of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiae, and other sites to the south east, the city was in total darkness, just ash and pumice…no lights, no sign of life… falling in through every open space such as windows. Some roofs collapsed under its weight and falling debris may also have caused injury, they have no other choice, they just wandered what’s happened, and what will happened next.
But the I process of repair and redevelopment wasn’t that pleasant and quick, that was a hard and slow work, all the dead bodies were berried so to take them out leaving some proves to the world, the professionals were working hard. It involved projects such as the embellishment of the Forum and the rebuilding of the Temple of Isis, and also attempts to re-establish the city’s water supply, which had been severely disrupted. And today Pompeii is a beautiful place with a beautiful hostory, even sad one, which brings it sadness with it…
