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THE MODERN RESTORATIONS IN POMPEII
In 1980, a few days before the tremendous earthquake which provoked serious damage to houses in Pompeii, fortunately a photo campaign of the entire archaeological area had just finished: 18,000 frames were taken. With the arrival of substantial, although not exhaustive funding, a team of restorers has made a number of interventions, including the consolidation of walls. They haven’t used reinforced concrete anymore, causing irreversible damage, but also materials used in antiquity as wood, bricks and mortar.
Regarding the roofs of buildings, the archaeologists gear the solutions to the different cases: where it is possible, they opt for a philological reconstruction of the roofs. When the archaeologists have only a vague idea of the building, they prefer a proposal restoration. Where there is no trace of the original roof, an umbrella-shaped coverage is constructed to protect the building from the weather.
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POMPEII MONUMENT OF THE DAY
Along the wide perimeter of the walls, still recognizable, opened no less than seven doors. Only of two we know the ancient denomination, but to the other has been ascribed a conventional name that express well their function and their placement in the general topography: Porta Marina Gate, Porta Ercolano Gate, Porta Vesuvio Gate, Porta di Nola Gate, Porta di Sarno Gate, Porta Nocera Gate and Porta di Stabia Gate. At the moment of the eruption the doors had lost their strategic or defensive role for let space to more wide and convenient doorway useful for commercial traffic and exaction of tribute. The eruption has crystallized them in a transformation that has never ... continue
RECIPE OF THE DAY OF THE ANCIENT POMPEII
(Apic. 6, 8, 11) Ingredients:
- 1.4 kg chicken thighs and drumsticks
- 3 tbsp Liquamen (or soya sauce)
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 250 ml fruity white wine (eg chablis)
- white peppercorns
- 150 g pine nuts
- whites of two boiled eggs, mashed with a fork
- 60 ml cooking liquid
- 60ml/120ml milk
Instructions:
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Cook the chicken by placing in a roasting tin, covering with the Liquamen, olive oil and white wine. Cover with a lid and bake at 180°C for 90 minutes or until the chicken is done. Drain the c ... continue
FORBIDDEN POMPEII: IMAGES AND NEWS
Love was a common topic of conversation in Pompeii. Feelings, passions, poetic love, sex, homosexuality, prostitution and so forth were all part of daily life and not a source of prejudice. The concept of “obscenity” seems to have been unknown. Love and sex were considered earthly practices of a man’s life that were encouraged by the benevolence of Venus. The thousands of examples of graffiti found on the town’s walls are unequivocal proof of what the people of Pompeii thought about love and sex.