If you ask most people what happened after the outbreak of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, many would say that until the 16th century, life stopped completely, based on a wide range of images of well-preserved corpses, complex murals and well-preserved buildings.
But new research says that after Pompeii was buried in ashes and debris, people did return.
Archaeological studies in the southern region of Pompeii provide new information on how citizens repeat damaged buildings and are adapted after the city is buried at an area up to 20 feet deep.
“Ongoing archaeological investigations highlight the existence of the residential tier after the outbreak,” Pompeii Archaeological Park researchers wrote in a paper published in the Journal of Digital. e-journal degli scavi di pompei (Electronic journal discovered by Pompeii) on August 6. “These can be traced back to two different stages. The first stage is the end of CE to the beginning of the third century, and the second stage is the second stage between the 4th and 5th centuries of CE”
The study, led by Gabriel Zuchtriegel, “confirms theories that have gradually emerged over the past 100 years” New York Times.
“The decisive event that the city was destroyed in 79 AD has monopolized memory,” Zuchtriegel said in a statement. “The faint traces of the website’s refocusing were actually deleted, often swept away without any documents. The situation is clearer now thanks to new excavations.”
Zuchtriegel tells The era.
according to Artnet“Citizens repeated half the walls of the upper half of the floor” to rebuild the roof, “often dug to the floor to form cellars and caves.”
An staircase discovered by archaeologists was built from reused marble fragments, ceramic tiles, local volcanic stones.
The researchers also found that the bones of a horse and a newborn child were buried in coins in 161 AD. The remains show that there were working animals after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Archaeologists have also found signs of cooking facilities and other long-term residences, such as cooking supplies from North Africa and family-style bread ovens made of reused ceramic tiles, bricks and stones. Animal bones, pine cone fragments and remnants of ancient coins were also found.
