Bodies from the ash / James M. Deem.
2005
DG70.P7 D386 2005 (Mapit)
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Title
Bodies from the ash / James M. Deem.
Author
Deem, James M.
ISBN
9780618473083
0618473084
0618473084
Imprint
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
Language
English
Description
50 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 x 29 cm.
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DG70.P7 D386 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification
937/.7
Summary
Details the events that occurred when Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried Pompeii in 79 A.D., focusing on how this information was deduced from the skeletons found by archaeologists at the site. In ancient times, Pompeii was one of the largest cities in the Roman Empire. Its 20,000 inhabitants lived in the shadow of Vesuvius, which they believed was nothing more than a mountain. But Vesuvius was a volcano. And on the morning of August 24, A.D. 79, Vesuvius began to erupt. Within twenty-four hours, the entire city of Pompeii-and many of its citizens-had been utterly annihilated. It was not until hundreds of years later that Pompeii saw daylight again, as archaeological excavations began to unearth what had been buried under layers of volcanic rubble. Digging crews expected to find buildings and jewelry and other treasures, but they found something unexpected, too: the imprints of lost Pompeiians, their deaths captured as if by photographic images in volcanic ash.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-48) and index.
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Table of Contents
August 24 and 25, AD 79
Rediscovering Pompeii
The plaster bodies of Pompeii
Lives from the ashes
Herculaneumæs different fate
A final excavation.
Rediscovering Pompeii
The plaster bodies of Pompeii
Lives from the ashes
Herculaneumæs different fate
A final excavation.