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There is no reason to think Pompeiians were anything other than typical Roman citizens, so their remains can probably speak for many across Italy at the time. While they suffered the diseases and discomforts that still affect us today, in general their health beyond childhood higher infant mortality is likely was not greatly different from our own.
However, one study suggested an important exception to this rule: the state of teeth and jaws point to poor dental hygiene.
The slopes of Vesuvius were known for its fertile soils and wine from Pompeii was an important export — at least one wine jar made it all the way to England.
The city had been badly damaged by severe earthquakes 15 years before the eruption. Yet none of this was connected to volcanism. There was nothing to fear…. Since its discovery in , people have been digging up Pompeii for over years.
We are far from really understanding what made Pompeii tick. Modern science and archaeology have replaced the old-style treasure-hunting for fine artefacts and wall paintings. In the process, everyone has realised how much knowledge was lost through earlier work — and how much more we can learn now. The excavation of houses still sealed under ash has stopped.
Take gardens. Early students had questioned whether the lush gardens pictured in wall paintings could have been real. Greek philosophy and rhetoric moved fully into Latin for the first time in the speeches, letters and dialogues of Cicero B. A brilliant lawyer and the first of his family to achieve Roman office, Cicero was one of the Julius Caesar was a renowned general, politician and scholar in ancient Rome who conquered the vast region of Gaul and helped initiate the end of the Roman Republic when he became dictator of the Roman Empire.
Despite his brilliant military prowess, his political skills and his The Roman politician and general Mark Antony 83—30 B. His romantic and political In B. He then marched his massive army across the Pyrenees and Alps into central Italy in what would be remembered as one of the most By the time the First Punic War broke out, Rome had become the dominant power throughout the Italian Live TV.
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Colosseum Located just east of the Roman Forum, the massive stone amphitheater known as the Colosseum was commissioned around A. Marcus Tullius Cicero Greek philosophy and rhetoric moved fully into Latin for the first time in the speeches, letters and dialogues of Cicero B. Julius Caesar Julius Caesar was a renowned general, politician and scholar in ancient Rome who conquered the vast region of Gaul and helped initiate the end of the Roman Republic when he became dictator of the Roman Empire.
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