The artifacts are fantastic. The stove, for instance, that has raised rings on the back for pots to sit on and is a stone tray that allows a fire to be built and moved under the rings to regulate heat. There were artifacts of jewelry, burial accoutrements, furniture (some parts ... the wooden ones ... were reconstructed), pots, statues, frescos. All of these were well documented with interesting descriptions. There was also a short video of the day of the eruption that described normal life and the impact of the eruption and how quickly it engulfed the city. The complexity of the displays grew as you moved deeper into the museum and the program reached a crescendo as you moved into a reddish black hallway that opened into a black room housing a number of casts of people and animals that were made from the original Pompeii site excavations. These casts capture people and animals in the throws of death, recreating in a visual sense, the last moments of their lives. It was very tastefully done and very moving.
I have posted some photos on this site so that you might share in some of this experience.
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I still have all those pictures on my phone and I am going to try to take them off with a friend's microchip. I will send them to you once I do that and even though you have higher quality ones here, you can at least have those for the home.
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