In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted with tremendous force, buried Roman cities near Pompei and Harkulanium – and possibly around around 16,000 people-A ash and pumis. About 2000 years later, the archaeological probe continues to reveal the last moments of the victims, which becomes immortal in solid volcanic debris.
The house of Elle and Friso has recently been named after a mythical Fresco, a pompei house, which has a mythological Fresco in a room – has detected the main internal locations of the building. Archaeologists also highlighted the heart -touching details of the desperate efforts of the residents. E-magazine Excavation of Pompei.
Gabriel Zucrigel, director of the archaeological park in Pompei, said, “Pompei digging and traveling means to come face to face with the beauty of art, but with the uncertainty of our life.” statement,
Archaeologists revealed the entrance of the building, as well as a central hall decorated with water collecting basins, a bedroom and a banquet chamber, which included Elle and a one who painted a friso. They also found a room with an open roof designed to collect rain water. In the bedroom, the remains of at least four people were discovered, including a child, including a talisman, as well as related to them.
The most striking discovery was a bedr pushed side by the entrance of the room – an attempt by the residents, possibly a family, to protect themselves from Lapilli, small volcanic pieces flowing through the roof opening. While the bed wood has long disintegrated, archaeologists were able to cast a plaster of empty spaces, out of the solid volcanic debris.
“In this little, surprisingly decorated house we found marks of residents who tried to save themselves,” Zucrigel explained. “They did not make it, finally the pyrocklastic flow came, a violent flow of very hot ash that was filled here, somewhere else, as every room.”
Archaeologists were also found in bronze earthen utensils, including a bodle, a jug, a shell -shaped cup and amphora, some of which once stored a reputed ancient Roman fish sauce called Garam. In addition, masonry materials and imperfect decoration marks suggest that the house was subject to renewal at the time of explosion. As common today, the residents of the house decided not to move during work.
In myth Elle and Friso, also known as Hale and Frexus, two brothers -Bahn’s stepmother inspired her father to sacrifice the gods. His mother Nephell sends a flying golden-phlass Ram to save him, but Elle falls into his back and sea, named Helpent (The Modern-Day. Dardaneles) In his honor. The Pompei house depicts Elle Falls in Fresco, at the point, at the version, she either sinks or Posidon turns it into a sea god.
The person who commissioned Fresco for his home could not imagine that the mythological tragedy is one of the most famous destruction in the ancient world one day.
