Anonymous ID: 74669b Feb. 20, 2022, 1:19 a.m. No.15672514   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>2525

Pompeii: Rebirth of Italy’s dead city that nearly died again

 

n a few horrible hours, Pompeii was turned from a vibrant city into an ash-embalmed wasteland, smothered by a furious volcanic eruption in A.D. 79.

 

Then in this century, the excavated Roman city appeared alarmingly close to a second death, assailed by decades of neglect, mismanagement and scant systematic maintenance of the heavily visited ruins. The 2010 collapse of a hall where gladiators trained nearly cost Pompeii its coveted UNESCO World Heritage Site designation.

 

But these days, Pompeii is experiencing the makings of a rebirth.

 

Excavations undertaken as part of engineering stabilization strategies to prevent new collapses are yielding a raft of revelations about the everyday lives of Pompeii’s residents, as the lens of social class analysis is increasingly applied to new discoveries.

 

Under the archaeological park’s new German-born director, innovative technology is helping restore some of Pompeii’s nearly obliterated glories and limit the effects of a new threat — climate change.

 

SAUCE: https://apnews.com/article/science-technology-business-italy-europe-fd7499b179f254ad442c468fdc94394b