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Sorrento - Pompeii

The Forum Granary

"Pompeii - I was quite surprised at how intact everything was
The roads and buildings were just as they would have been before the eruption
I enjoyed my few hours there wandering around a very intact ruin
but found the volcano looming in the background quite eerie!!"

"The plaster casts of the people were quite gruesome!!
The archeologists had filled the cavities they found with plaster
and then chipped away the outside
What was left was the expressions of people as they died
- the anguish on their faces was particularly moving - they seemed so frightened"

(two photos)