Italy 2001

The House of Paquius Proculus

Where there are mosaics, there will be murals on the walls. Each one an original. This one an elephant?

A boar hunting scene in the vestibule of one villa in Pompeii

The House of Loreius Tiburtinus. The city must have been quite spectacular to walk through.

The House of the Venus Marina (Venus on the Half-Shell)

The grandest of them all, being the 'Villa of Mysteries'

Also known of the Villa of Dionysian Mystery

A bakery. There is the oven, and in the foregound the typical Roman grinders. Grains get poured into the top, while the square holes are used for long poles to be inserted, used to turn the upper half of the grindstone on the conical lower grindstone. In the process the grains were turned into flour, that would run out all around the grinding mechanism and swept off the flat shelf into baskets or other conatainers and taken to the baker to be used for the dough to make his products, i.e. stone-ground bread. Watch out for the little rock particles.

Looking down the Forum, north, toward Vesuvius. On the left the Temple of Apollo, at the far end, the Temple of Jupiter

How the Forum might have looked - View to north

The Forum. View toward the south

By the Forum there is this repository of finds, including a cast of one of the individuals found here. Many of the important pieces recovered from Pompeii can be viewed in the Naples National Archaeological Museum

Map of Pompeii from Wikipedia (linked)

By the time it finally erupted, Vesuvius had been dormant for 800 years