Since then, this bustling ancient city has disappeared from the ground and slept underground for nearly ... 1700 years. It was not until 1748 that local farmers accidentally discovered some ancient stone statues and steles while farming that they attracted people's attention. Archaeologists have been digging and sorting out for nearly 200 years intermittently, which has brought the ancient city to light again. This ancient city is a very valuable relic and a very special museum. People can really see the urban life scene of ancient Rome here.
Due to this sudden disaster, the ancient city was destroyed in an instant and buried by hot volcanic lava, so many parts of the city remained the way it was at that time. After excavation and arrangement, it can be clearly distinguished that the area of Pompeii is about .. 63 hectares, built on an oval platform, surrounded by .. 3 kilometers long walls .. 8 doors. There are two streets in the vertical and horizontal directions of the city, which cross in a "well" shape, and the whole city is divided into .. 9 areas. There are streets and alleys in every area. The road is paved with huge stones, and there are slightly higher sidewalks on both sides of the street.
There are clearly identifiable rut marks on the road surface of the main street, and broken walls remains in the buildings on both sides of the street. Some doors and windows and some furniture, utensils and appliances in the room are also intact. People even found bread in the oven and hard-boiled eggs in the cupboard.
In ancient Pompeii, there was a good water supply system, a diversion canal made of masonry, which drew spring water from the mountains outside the city. Every intersection is equipped with a public water tank, and there is a pool fountain in the garden of the rich mansion. There is a rectangular square in the city, which was the center of religious, political and economic activities in the city in those days, and also the concentration place of government, courts and temples. Around the square, there are still .. 10 meters high, thick and foldable stone columns, exquisitely carved marble doorframes, and slate foundations more than 10 meters above the ground. You can imagine the grandeur of the buildings here. On the wall of the square building, the slogan of the election is still retained.
In the southeast of the city, there is an amphitheater that can accommodate 100 people ... 5,000 spectators. It is built in ... It is a contemporary building of the world-famous Roman amphitheater. There are also three public bathrooms in the city. It can be seen that Pompeii people who lived 1900 years ago knew how to boil water with a boiler and how to keep the bathroom temperature by sending steam through the wall space and under the floor with central heating. There are also some private houses excavated, where there are thick marble columns, finely carved gatehouses, halls, restaurants and bedrooms, exquisite murals on the walls, mosaic patterns on the ground, and marble-carved angels and portraits, animals, stone basins and stone bottles in the garden. The excavation also proved that Pompeii had various handicraft workshops and shops at that time, and reached a considerable scale. In addition, a large number of daily necessities, such as labor tools, weapons, coins and clothes, as well as ornaments such as bracelets, earrings and precious stones have been unearthed, including loan books of usurers, IOUs of borrowers, account books of businessmen, and government notices.
The most historical value is a group of "statues" of people and animals who suffered in those years cast in plaster by later generations. When the volcano erupted suddenly, there were about ... there were 2000 people in this city, of whom about ... 2000 people failed to escape and died with the city. Volcanic magma pours down, wrapping people and livestock in magma for an instant, and then
The magma cooled and solidified, and after thousands of years, the body rotted, leaving human and animal-shaped empty shells inside the rock.