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1. Overview of the Naples Bay area -- NASA
Aster satellite -- Blue areas are densely populated.
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0201BayNASAAster.jpg
2. Prior earthquake recorded on an altar frieze from Pompeii
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0202EarthquakeFrieze.jpg
3. Map of the ashfal from the Plinian phase of the 79 AD
eruption
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0203AshfallMap.jpg
4a. Mechanics of a pyroclastic flow
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0204aPyroFlowSurgeA.jpg
4b. Herculaneum pyroclastic flows
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0204bPyroFlowSurgeB.jpg
5.
Bulwer-Lytton, who wrote The
Last Days of Pompeii
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0205BulwerLytton.jpg
6. Pompeii in 19th century popular art
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0206PompeiiPopArt.jpg
7. Mark Twain's Innocents
Abroad
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0207InnocentsTwain.jpg
8. The Vesuvius funicular and its song
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0208FuniculiFinicula.jpg
Pavaroti sings it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTSAZAHiOa8
9. Pliny the Younger to Tacitus -- letters with eyewitness
account of the 79 AD eruption
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0209PlinyTacitus.jpg
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0209xPlinyYounger.jpg
10. Ancient looters in Pompeii left their traces
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0210LooterHole1.jpg
11. More looters
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0211LooterHole2.jpg
12. Domenico Fontana (ca. 1600) -- architect and engineer
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0212xDomenicoFontana.jpg
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0212Fontana1.jpg
13. Fontana's aqueduct -- route and current excavations
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0213FontanaAqueduct.jpg
14. Fontana's aqueduct -- left traces as it cut through
Pompeii
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0214FontanaAqueduct2.jpg
15. King Charles of Bourbon of Naples -- collector of
antiquities (later King Charles III of Spain)
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0215aCharlesOfBourbon.jpg
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0215Charles3.jpg
16. Karl Weber -- Excavation Director and his nemesis
Alcubierre. Both worked for Charles
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0215yKarlWeber.jpg
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0215xlcubierre.jpg
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0216WeberByParslow.jpg
17. Antichita di Ercolano
published by the court of Charles iii -- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Antichitˆ_di_Ercolano_Esposte
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0217AntichitaErcolano.jpg
18. Isis temple discovered
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0218IsisTemple1.jpg
19. Isis temple and "Egyptian styles" in Europe
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0219IsisTemple2.jpg
20. Mazois' Les Ruines de
Pompei published
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0220RuinesDePompei.jpg
21. Garibaldi appoints Dumas as excavations Director
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0221DumasGaribaldi.jpg
22. Fiorelli and his method of makeing plaster casts of 79
AD victims
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0222FiorelliMethod.jpg
23. Maiuri -- Director for Mussolini and until the 1960s
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0223MaiuriCast.jpg
24.
Pompeii site Director
Massimo Osanna (through 2020) implemented the Great Pompeii
Project (2014 - 2020).
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0224MassimoOsanna.jpg
24x. Osanna with newly excavated Lararium (household gods' shrine)
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0224xOsannaLararium.jpg
25. Map -- current extent of excavated area
of Pompeii
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0225PompeiiExcavMap.jpg
26. The Great Pompeii Project:
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0226GreatPompeiiProject.jpg
27. Dr. Osanna saw the project to its nominal conclusion (some work continues) and then became the director of all Italian National Museums. After a search, which attracted 44 candidates, a new site director for Pompeii, a German/Italian dual-national archeologist, Dr. Gabriel Zuchtriegel, was appointed in February 0f 2021. Zuchtriegel had for several years been the site director at Paestum (three standing Greek temples), and, before that, he had been Osanna's assistant and protege in Pompeii. We don't know the exact politics of Zuchtriegel's appointment, but two of the four members of the Pompeii Archeological Park Board of Directors resigned in protest at his appointment. Zuchtriegel is known for his expertise in remote sensing, drone surveys, satelite sensing, ground penetrating radar, electrical resistance mapping, microwave tomography and other modern technologies used in archeogeophysics.
http://www.mmdtkw.org/AlriVes0227GabZuchtriegel.jpg
28. Areas worked by the Great Pompei Project include "The Wedge" and its surroundings in Area V of Pompeii, Stabilization of the city walls and towers, and stabilization of the edges of previous excavations, which in some cases involved digging back as many as ten additional meters into structures along city streets on which only building facades had previously been exposed.
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0228egVNewDigs.jpg
Discoveries in the newly excavated areas
Areas V new excavations
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0228RegVNewDigs.jpg
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0229AreaV.jpg
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0230BarrelVaultedRoom.jpg
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0230BarrelVaultedRoom.jpg
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0232FloorMosaic.jpg
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0234LedaSwanFresco1(2018Dig).jpg
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0235LedaSwanFresco2(2018Dig).jpg
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0236NewlyExposedFrescoes.jpg
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0237Thermopolium.jpg
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0238PinnedSkeleton.jpg
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0238xSorceressKit.jpg
http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0239EruptionDateInscription.jpg
