Vesuvio destroyed a village 1500 years before POMPEI

exacvations made recentrly have discovered a bronze age village that was
destroyed by an eruption of Vesuvio
at least 1500 years before it destroyed Pompei
Huts have been found and pottery and a few small statues.

James Silverton wrote:
> tile wrote on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:08:12 +0100:
>
> t> excavations made recently have discovered a bronze age
> t> village that was destroyed by an eruption of Vesuvius
> t> at least 1500 years before it destroyed Pompei
> t> Huts have been found and pottery and a few small statues.
>
> Is that supposed to be controversial? Vesuvius has been known to
> have been active for a very long time.
>
> James Silverton
> Potomac, Maryland
>
> E-mail, with obvious alterations:
> not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

it is not controversial. it was just a curiosity
Pompeians had not known about it. otherwise they would not have built Pompei
where it was built.
It fact Pompei had been forgotten for a long time. until it was found by
chance in 1550 about.. with the first excavations started in 1750 about

and Ercolano was so much forgotten. that most of it lies under the newly
built Ercolano.

Hatunen wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:08:12 +0100, "tile" <supertile@libero.it>
> wrote:
>
>> exacvations made recentrly have discovered a bronze age village
>> that was destroyed by an eruption of Vesuvio
>> at least 1500 years before it destroyed Pompei
>> Huts have been found and pottery and a few small statues.
>
> I'll bet it's destroyed villages even older than that...


well. there were no traditions about this eruption. while for the eruption
that destroyed Pompei there are two letters from Plinius junior to Tacitus..
describing exactly how the eruption happened
By the way his uncle Plinius senior died trying to save people from Pompei
with his fleet
besides being a scientist he was the admiral of the roman fleet in Stabia
about 30% of Pompei has still to be excavated. while 70% of Ercolano is
still under ashes
Very important. two more floors were found in the House of Papiri..
Archeologists hope to find libraries in Latin and other languages. In the
first floor there was a library in greek.

"tile" <supertile@libero.it> wrote in message
news:47e75280$0$37194$4fafbaef@reader3.news.tin.it ...
> well. there were no traditions about this eruption. while for the eruption
> that destroyed Pompei there are two letters from Plinius junior to
> Tacitus.. describing exactly how the eruption happened
> By the way his uncle Plinius senior died trying to save people from Pompei
> with his fleet

Fascinating account, too. By the way, the usual English form of the names of
the admiral and his nephew are "Pliny the Elder/Younger". The lad escaped
because he was rather bookish, and preferred to stay at home and read rather
than accompany his uncle on his rescue mission.

> besides being a scientist he was the admiral of the roman fleet in Stabia

Wasn't the fleet based in Misenum/Miseno? If I remember correctly, they set
out across the bay to attempt a rescue and it was at Stabiae/Castellammare
di Stabia that Pliny the Elder perished. We don't often think of the Roman
army (of which the navy was a part) engaing in mercy missions!


> about 30% of Pompei has still to be excavated. while 70% of Ercolano is
> still under ashes
> Very important. two more floors were found in the House of Papiri..
> Archeologists hope to find libraries in Latin and other languages. In the
> first floor there was a library in greek.
That would be wonderful, if the papyrus has survived.

Alan Harrison