Pompeii is one of those places that when you visit, you never forget. Full of story, it seems to be a Hollywood script, causes astonishment and sometimes even mistrust in many people. How could an entire city have been wiped out by a volcano?
To remain forgotten for more than 1600 years and only now to be revealed again to humanity? It is even more impressive to see how everything has been preserved over time. Almost intact paintings, constructions … and many, many human and animal forms with petrified appearance. A scary and intriguing scenario.
Some people say that the history of Pompeii is actually a “new version” of what happened to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, which, according to the Bible, were destroyed by God with fire and sulfur, due to the sins that existed there. Coincidence? In Pompeii, many works of art and constructions
With reference to erotism and a shameless lifestyle have been found. For the science, there are neither evidences that Sodom and Gomorrah really existed nor that the destruction of Pompeii was divine work. On the contrary, everyone knows exactly who was responsible for the fate of Pompeii.
As we said, an impressive history, that we have already shown here at Viaje Por Conta, in a special VLOG, which surpassed the mark of 2 MILLION VIEWS. We’re leaving the link to this VLOG here in the description, go check it, it’s worth!.
We also explain there how it was possible to keep the famous BODIES OF POMPEII intact, even after more than a millennium buried. To celebrate this incredible milestone, of more than 2 MILLION VIEWS, today we share with you our reaction when we saw, for the first time, some of the bodies of Pompeii.
It was a live broadcast, without cuts, and you are going to check all of it right now. Good Morning. Good Morning. Today is a very hot sunny Sunday! Really hot! We came well protected because we knew we were going to spend a lot of time here,
And that it was going to be under the sun. After all, we are in an archaeological site. Yes, you can see here that there are some columns back here, some ruins, but this is just a little bit of what this incredible place, full of history, has to show us.
After all, it is not just another archaeological site, it is one of the most important in Italy, an entire city that remained buried for a very long time. It was discovered in the 16th century, the excavations began just in the 18th century, and now we have Pompeii, this incredible place to visit.
And look, the responsible for all this extinction of the city is right there on the other side, it is Mount Vesuvius. It erupted and covered not only the city of Pompeii, but also several others around here, with ashes and rocks.
In fact, nine cities were affected by the volcano, but Pompeii is the largest of them, so, it is the most famous. We are now in a really cool place called the forum. It was the heart of Pompeii. Here there was the Temple of Apollo.
Over there, those brown buildings, were the buildings of the municipal administration. Those white columns over there indicate where the basilica was. But at that time, the word Basilica did not describe a church, like nowadays, even because all of this
Was built long before Christ. It was the in fact a kind of court of law, where people were judged. So, the Basilica was there, and here we have all the central part of Pompeii. But back there, where you can see a lot of people, is where the most
Impressive things of this archaeological site are. We will try to get there. It is where they keep things that were found in Pompeii, but besides objects, there are also some petrified bodies, there is a child, a dog, a young man.
It is very impressive to see the bodies there, and all of them in very different positions, because the gas was very toxic and killed people in a few seconds. They believe that in only 12 seconds people were dead. We will try to show you, there are a lot of people,
But we will try to show you that the person was covering his mouth and nose with his hands, trying to protect himself from the gas. Of course it didn’t work. It’s estimated that 13,000 people lived here in Pompeii at the time of the eruption and about 10,000 managed to escape.
However, around between 3 and 4 thousand were killed by Vesuvius. There, let’s see if we can show you, there is a dog that was found petrified. We were seeing some information about it. The position is because it was chained to the neck, it’s possible to see
The mark of a chain, so this position of the dog is because it was tied up and could not escape… But, as it was said before, the time of death was about 12 seconds. Look at that, how impressive and sad at the same time.
This is probably a man’s body, crouched down, you can see that his hands are in front of his face, exactly because of what Tiago just said, that they were trying to protect themselves from the gas. They felt suffocated, so they tried to breathe and then died quickly… it is very complicated.
All these other objects you see here were found in Pompeii, it is pure history, of course, it is important to learn about all of this, but it’s very impressive, right? It’s sad. Yes, it is impressive, it is worth knowing,
It is worth paying attention to all of this and try to understand a little more about the history. Here we are going to show you an image now, if you found both the dog and the body impressive, this one is even more impressive, because it is the body of a baby,
Of a child, also perfect. You can even see the expression in his face. It may not be very clear for you because the body is behind a glass, so there is a lot of reflex. Around 2000 petrified bodies like that were found,
Apart from the other objects. Not all of them are here. There are many others in museums too, including in Naples… the great collection of Pompeii is there. It’s history, it’s interesting, it’s ruin, it’s an archaeological site, it’s Italy, that has an incredible history to tell…
Follow our channel. We will continue to tell you much more about this city and many others, of course. That’s it. There is a sad side when you see these things, but on the other hand it is important to know
How it happened. Vesuvius is over there, and all of this really happened! It’s real! It is pure history. It is pure history. Thanks guys. See you next viddeo. See you.
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