Pompeii
New excavations in the Pompeia Insula Meridionalis neighborhood revealed that there were those who had returned to the ancient Roman city, covered with ash, after the volcanic eruption in the year 79 AD. They will have lived on the upper floors of the buildings.
Opportunist? Poverty? Climbing of other cities? What has taken the Romans again to Pompeii? A study last week in E-Journal of the Excavations of Pompeii revealed that people “They went back” looking for valuables and a place to stay.
The population “caught” by the new investigation, whose size is still unknown, occupied the remains of Pompeii for about 400 years, until the fifth century DC.
Previous theories already said that there were people who had returned Pompeii after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, “but the evidence to support this were ignored and, in some cases, damaged in previous excavations,” he said Gabriel BüchtriegelGeneral Director of the Archaeological Park of Pompeia, in.
“Most archaeologists escaped beyond the layers where these traces could have been discovered, in a race to reach the bottom of the rash’s ashes and reveal fresh, artifacts and the remains of people buried underneath,” he explained. But They forgot what they could hide other places – As is the case with the neighborhood South island.
As it refers to, Inseula MeridiONALIS is the southern neighborhood of the old center of Pompeia. The district is located between the imperial village to the west and the quadriporticus of the theaters to the east.
Archaeologists found traces of reoccupation dated after the year 79 AD These traces indicated that people who returned to Pompei after the eruption made houses on the upper floors of the buildingsbecause the entries for Lower floors were buried in ashes.
However, people still had access to lower floors from the interior of the buildings, so they used them as cellars; They built fireplaces, ovens and mills under the place where they lived, the statement says.
A POMPEIA POSTER was disorganized and probably without lawwith people rummaging the ashes looking for any previous value or possessions they could find.
The people who came back did it because They had nowhere to go or did not have the means to establish themselves elsewhere.
Previous research has revealed that many of the survivors of Pompeii and Herculaneum went to other communities along the southern coast of Italy, where they reinstalled in places such as Cumas, Naples, Ostia and Puteoli.
We may never know how many people survived the eruption, or what a proportion of these survivors has returned to live in Pompeii. What seems clear is that the city It was definitely abandoned in the fifth centuryhaving never totally recovered from the dramatic events of the year 79 AD
As the Pompei Archaeological Park statement recalls, people may have left Pompei once and for all volcanic eruption in 472 DC.
