Pompeii. Sergeenko M.

On the binding of this book, a portrait is placed from the wall of one of the Pompeiy houses. We do not know anything about the fate of the people depicted on it. Perhaps, during the eruption of Vesuvius, they, like everyone else, tried to escape, climbing in pitch darkness along the piles of stones that fell from the sky, and then, exhausted and desperate, died under hot ash rain. In just a few hours, Pompeii disappeared from the face of the earth, and it took fifteen centuries to arise from non -being. When, after two hundred years, systematic excavations began, under the multi -meter layer of pumice and ash, streets and squares, temples and markets, theaters and an arena were discovered, where gladiators, baths and palette, residential buildings with the situation and public toilets fought - in a word, everything that is all that that is stable It made up the city. Antiquity historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences Maria Sergeyenko talks about how Pompeii died, how they looked in front of the disaster, what were the classes, life and entertainment of the townspeople, how the city was found and excavated, and what is happening here these days. P>