The Telegraph has a handy little list of ‘Pompeii sightings’ in assorted pop culture venues:
Pompeii in popular culture (Telegraph)
… typo in the headline is somewhat cold, perhaps …
Category: Pompeii
Pompeii’s Last XXIV Hours
A couple of weeks ago we mentioned that Pliny the Elder happened to be tweeting the final hours of Pompeii — actually a very interesting project of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. In case you missed them, you can check them out at the project’s very nice page … each tweet has a link to a photo or quote or something and is definitely worth checking out:
‘Collapse’ at the Villa of the Mysteries
Brief reports filtering in of a beam falling from the ceiling in one of the rooms at the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii. No reports of actual damage, apparently, other than then beam itself falling. Here’s a few examples (all in Italian, and all with a photo):
- Pompei, cede trave in Villa Misteri (ANSA)
- A Pompei crolla la trave di legno a Villa dei Misteri (La Stampa)
- Scavi di Pompei, crolla trave di legno nel Peristilio della Villa dei Misteri (Adnkronos)
Tweeting Pompeii’s Last Day
If you’re on twitter, you’ll want to follow @Elder_Pliny beginning at 8 a.m. MST to get a minute by minute account, brought to you by the Denver Museum of Nature …
Some Pompeii Stuff
We’ll start with a video from the BBC and with a focus on what the people died from:
… and then remind folks of a Scientific American blog on the subject (which includes another one of our fave videos):
… and now that you’re interested (as if you weren’t), we’ll remind folks of the Ancient World Open Bibliography on the subject:
… and in case you didn’t see it in the Scientific American thing up there:
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