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A multidisciplinary volcanological and bio-anthropological study of the eruption products and victims, merged with numerical simulations and experiments, indicate that at Vesuvius and surrounding towns heat was the main cause of death of people, previously believed to have died by ash suffocation. The results of the study, published in 2010, show that exposure to at least 250 °C hot surges at a distance of 10 kilometres from the vent was sufficient to cause instant death, even if people were sheltered within buildings.
Originally posted by nrd101
makes me wonder how many times different civilizations have been wiped out maybe going back into millions of years. they're has always been catastrophes and there always will be.
Afragola is an Early Bronze Age village (Palma Campania period) in what is today Italy, that was damaged by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius ~3945 ± 10 cal BP (1995 ± 10 cal BC). The village lay in the Campanian plain of southwestern Italy, about 1000 meters from the ancient river Clanis, about 14 km northwest of Vesuvius, on the other side of the volcano from the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, destroyed some 1,700 years later
Originally posted by KJV1611
reply to post by Akragon
Hi madcat, you ever look into the wicked lifestyles of the Pompeii people just before the disaster? They were doing all kinds of perverse and creepy stuff to say the least. Almost similar to Sodom and Gomorrah,,,,,,,
Coincidence? Maybe, maybe not. America is doing the same things as both of the mentioned cultures as of today too!
Originally posted by KJV1611
reply to post by Akragon
Hi madcat, you ever look into the wicked lifestyles of the Pompeii people just before the disaster? They were doing all kinds of perverse and creepy stuff to say the least. Almost similar to Sodom and Gomorrah,,,,,,,
Coincidence? Maybe, maybe not. America is doing the same things as both of the mentioned cultures as of today too!
Originally posted by Akragon
Yes i have actually...
Originally posted by Hanslune
Originally posted by Akragon
Yes i have actually...
Thanks for the detailed info
Given the date of AD 79 for the destruction of the city that wouldn't have given much time for the movement to have been known there to any extent. Of course a great deal of Pompeii is yet to be uncovered. The bible was being written about that time so who knows..... I would doubt that many if any of the inhabitants would have known the 'rules' set out by this hebrew god
edit on 28/2/12 by Hanslune because: (no reason given)