Name: Pompeii Facts That Will Blow Your Mind
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The subjunctive

Whether it be from Mount Vesuvius or director Paul W.S.

Anderson, most of us associate the word Pompeii with disaster.

But while the deadly volcanic blast of 79 a.d.

was the most memorable aspect to this doomed civilization,

Today, we're looking at things you probably

So how much do we really know about the daily life

And just how devastating was the big blast that ended it all?

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At only a few hundred miles from the heavily populated Rome,

Pompeii served as a favored summer destination

for wealthy citizens looking for an extravagant vacation.

The city was far less dense than its Roman neighbor

such as a large amphitheater, as well as a commercial center

Think of it as the peaceful island in the film

Jaws, except with a murderous volcano instead of a shark.

It wouldn't be a true ancient Roman destination

without an absolute plethora of brothels,

something excavations have long confirmed.

a layout consisting of small cubicles each equipped

Along with this pretty obvious sign of sex work,

the main building also featured an erotic menu on its walls

describing not only a list of explicit acts, but prices

In fact, the entire city was a mecca for fornication.

As many of the buildings outside of the brothel

were found to feature similar erotic art,

making this more like Amsterdam than a family destination.

If you think graffiti is a modern invention,

then you've clearly never seen the hooligan antics

since the dawn of man, Pompeii being no different.

can still enjoy the wall humor of centuries past,

including that still preserved proclamation of, "Myrtis, you

suck well" found scrawled on one of the city's brothel walls.

Turns out that even after several millennia,

But it's not all ancient oral sex recommendations

of pre-eruption Pompeii, many detailed and well-preserved

frescoes on the city walls shed some light on the civilization.

between men and women, the former being golden bronze,

while the latter appearing in lighter tones while

gilded with jewelry and among fancy furnishings.

According to scholars, this dramatic difference

Their pale skin a sign of indoor living and luxury.

Originating from Vulcan, the Roman god a fire,

the word volcano wasn't invented until Mount Etna's eruption

had no formal definition for the impending destructor

that there was an abundance of warning signs leading up

to the eruption of the Vesuvius, all of which

were ignored by the unaware inhabitants below.

something that locals failed to connect to the possibility

Additionally, underground springs began drying up

to die due to the heavy, acidity in the water.

In other words, had the citizens of Pompeii

been even a little bit familiar with these warning signs,

we probably would know this as one of the biggest

But that's not the only oversight that plague Pompeii.

of an ancient and apocalyptic burial ground

would immediately pop for anyone who came upon it,

but that actually wasn't the case for Pompeii.

The first remnants were found by a crew of workers in 1599,

initially in the form of wall frescoes coupled

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