After the demolition of Mount Vizovius Pompeii, people returned to live between the rubble

In 79 AD, Vesuvius erupted in what will become one of the most famous humanity Old tragedies. After tens of centuries, archaeologists eagerly dug through the ashes and light to re -discover the Roman cities buried in Pompeii and Herculanem in all their preserved glory. However, in their passion, they may have lost an important layer of history.

While working at Insula Meridionalis – the southern quarter of the ancient urban center in Pompeii – bribery scientists discovered evidence that the hypothesis that after 79 AD, people returned to live between the ruins of Pompeii for hundreds of years. The results of the team they describe in a Ticket This week was published this week in POMPEIII, where it shed light on the events that have long lived in the best studied history.

“The urgent episode of the city’s destruction in 79 AD,” said Gabriel Zoth Zriegel, Director General of the Pompery Archaeological Park and the co -author of the study, in one of the parks. statement. “In the enthusiasm of reaching” 79 “levels, with wonderfully preserved murals and furnishings that are still not volatile, the low effects of the site literally reshape the site and are often sweeping without any documents.”

All survivors of that terrible day had no means to start again elsewhere. According to researchers, this may explain the reason for the return of some to the destroyed city, whose higher levels were visible over the ashes. Soon after, the vegetation had also grown. According to the statement, he may have joined the former population returning by other people “with what they lose”, according to the statement. After all, there were wealth that could be found between the bodies of ash and the victims.

As such, life returned to Pompeii. People lived among the ruins of the upper floors of the buildings, using previous ground floors as cellars and caves to create fireplaces, ovens and mills. Archaeological evidence indicates that the new society was probably an unstable settlement without the usual ancient Roman infrastructure and services. However, the settlement continued until the fifth century. Perhaps another devastating volcanic eruption played a role in the final abandonment of the city.

“Thanks to the new fossils, the image is now more clear: Pompeii pompeii”, explains Zuchtriegel. “Instead of the city, (it is) a risk and gray bloc, which is a type of camp, which is a fiblla between the rubble that is still known in Pompeii of Old.”

Emperor Tito has actually cost two former in promoting the re -establishment of Pompei and Herculaneum. It goes without saying, the task was a failure.

“In these cases, we are archaeologists that psychologists for memory buried on Earth: we take out the parts removed from history,” Zushtragele concluded. “This phenomenon must lead us to a broader reflection on the archaeological unconscious, for everything that has been removed, blurred or remains hidden, in light of other more important things.”