Thursday, March 27, 2014

Pompeii


This city as some people call it a city frozen in time, but this city was preserved very well. If you visit the city of Pompeii there will be casts in some places and you could be amazed by how they look and their gestures. Then if you see in the video it also talks about this city near the volcano Mt. Vesuvius and its city's name is Herculaneum. Its people were burned to death and the city was 3 KM away from the volcano. So they thought that high grounds would protect them and live through it ,but instead of protecting them it became their graves. Since Pompeii is 5 KM away then the heat has lowered to 300 degrees Fahrenheit . So that is why there casts were so well preserved and there clothes as well. In Herculaneum the first wave of heat struck at 500 degrees Fahrenheit. So as soon as the heat struck Herculaneum, the heat killed its people in and instant and vaporizing its flesh with it. In Pompeii the people were trying to run away from the 4th hit of heat and as soon as it hit it killed everyone, but saved there clothes and after they died the ashes covered them up to form a rock over them creating a cast. Now in this video they are going to explain everything and show 2 casts of how one person from Pompeii lived and what his status was and a woman from Herculaneum and they believe she was one of the rich people who lived in Herculaneum.






Cast
Herculaneum  Pompeii