Archaeological Findings That Tell Us About Life in Ancient Pompeii

The destruction of the ancient city of Pompeii in 79 A.D. is one of the biggest natural disasters to have happened at the time. About two thousand people died when they couldn’t escape the volcanic lava rushing out of the erupting Mount Vesuvius. The entire city was covered in ash and debris. It was left stranded until 1748 when it was rediscovered by a group of explorers. Under all the dust and ash, they found a city that was pretty much intact. Houses, public structures, works of art, and sadly, the skeletons of those who had been trapped in their homes by the lava were all found on site. The place has been an archaeological magnet ever since, and there are still plenty of findings in the area waiting to be discovered. Such recently-discovered artifacts are ceremonial figurines and rare gemstones.