Actually it's always been a dream for me to visit the town in Pompeii in Italy, however i have not realised that dream. Imagine my excitement when the museum organises an exhibition dedicated to the town. Pompeii is a town which was buried alive when Mount Vesuvius erupted. Excavation to the buried and forgotten town unearthed many objects. It was as if the town was paused and discovered thousands of years later, but without signs of life.
These are cast of human corpses which died in the apocalypse. There are also casts of animals and couples holding hands at the moment of death.
This is a picture of an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in modern day.
There are so many items found buried, including household items, furniture and others. But what intrigued me the most are these food items found : Fig, walnut, peach, oyster shells, olives, broad beans and barley grains.
This is a mosaic column. The best and finest examples of mosaic are preserved in Pompeii.
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