An edition of Pompeii (2008)

Pompeii

Pompeii
Liz Sonneborn, Liz Sonneborn
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An edition of Pompeii (2008)

Pompeii

An ancient city unearthed… In the 1730s, Charles of Bourbon, king of the area around present-day Naples, Italy, learned that local peasants were finding marble and other ancient objects when they dug their wells. He sent army colonel Rocque Joachin Alcubierre and later Karl Jacob Weber to explore the area. Working in darkness with only torches to light their way, Alcubierre’s and Weber’s crews of workers tunneled through hardened mud. The crews found a marble statue on the very first day. Soon they discovered an ancient Roman theater filled with marble and bronze statues. Later, the crew moved south, where digging was above ground, and they began to uncover the ancient city of Pompeii. This once-vibrant Roman city had been completely buried in lava and ash when the volcano Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. By unearthing this ancient city, Weber spurred interested not only in artifacts, but in how the ancient people lived. By the early nineteenth century, Pompeii was a busy tourist attraction and the once-buried city lived again.

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Pompeii
2008, Lerner Publishing Group
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Pompeii
2008, Twenty-First Century Books
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Table of Contents

Discovering Herculaneum
Learning to excavate
Weber's mission
Exploring Pompeii
A proposal for the accademia
Criticism and praise.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Minneapolis
Series
Archaeology adventures
Genre
Juvenile literature.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
937/.7
Library of Congress
DG70.P7 S735 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17945087M
ISBN 13
9780822575054
LCCN
2007022058
OCLC/WorldCat
137222864
Library Thing
5437909
Goodreads
6032367

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