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  1. In 79 AD, the #ancient #city of #Herculaneum was #overwhelmed and #buried by multiple #pyroclasticflows resulting from a devastating #eruption of Mount #Vesuvius. The city's everyday environment was abruptly #encased in #solidrock, allowing #organicmaterials to be #preserved better than in #Pompeii. These include the #Herculaneumpapyri (see ref).
    ©#StefanFWirth

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    S. Ceccarelli et al. (2025)
    doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-199

    #illustrations
    ©S.F.Wirth,AI-assisted art

  2. In 79 AD, the #ancient #city of #Herculaneum was #overwhelmed and #buried by multiple #pyroclasticflows resulting from a devastating #eruption of Mount #Vesuvius. The city's everyday environment was abruptly #encased in #solidrock, allowing #organicmaterials to be #preserved better than in #Pompeii. These include the #Herculaneumpapyri (see ref).
    ©#StefanFWirth

    support me:
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    ref
    S. Ceccarelli et al. (2025)
    doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-199

    #illustrations
    ©S.F.Wirth,AI-assisted art

  3. In 79 AD, the #ancient #city of #Herculaneum was #overwhelmed and #buried by multiple #pyroclasticflows resulting from a devastating #eruption of Mount #Vesuvius. The city's everyday environment was abruptly #encased in #solidrock, allowing #organicmaterials to be #preserved better than in #Pompeii. These include the #Herculaneumpapyri (see ref).
    ©#StefanFWirth

    support me:
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    ref
    S. Ceccarelli et al. (2025)
    doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-199

    #illustrations
    ©S.F.Wirth,AI-assisted art

  4. In 79 AD, the #ancient #city of #Herculaneum was #overwhelmed and #buried by multiple #pyroclasticflows resulting from a devastating #eruption of Mount #Vesuvius. The city's everyday environment was abruptly #encased in #solidrock, allowing #organicmaterials to be #preserved better than in #Pompeii. These include the #Herculaneumpapyri (see ref).
    ©#StefanFWirth

    support me:
    ko-fi.com/sfwirth

    ref
    S. Ceccarelli et al. (2025)
    doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-199

    #illustrations
    ©S.F.Wirth,AI-assisted art

  5. In 79 AD, the #ancient #city of #Herculaneum was #overwhelmed and #buried by multiple #pyroclasticflows resulting from a devastating #eruption of Mount #Vesuvius. The city's everyday environment was abruptly #encased in #solidrock, allowing #organicmaterials to be #preserved better than in #Pompeii. These include the #Herculaneumpapyri (see ref).
    ©#StefanFWirth

    support me:
    ko-fi.com/sfwirth

    ref
    S. Ceccarelli et al. (2025)
    doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-199

    #illustrations
    ©S.F.Wirth,AI-assisted art

  6. Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

    "Meanwhile the rich-tressed Kharites (Graces) and cheerful Horai (Seasons) dance with Harmonia (Harmony) and Hebe (Youth) and Aphrodite, daughter of Zeus, holding each other by the wrist."
    Homeric Hymn 3 to Pythian Apollo 186

    🏛 #Venus statuette from #Pompeii, Naples National Archaeological Museum

    #DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history

  7. Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

    "Meanwhile the rich-tressed Kharites (Graces) and cheerful Horai (Seasons) dance with Harmonia (Harmony) and Hebe (Youth) and Aphrodite, daughter of Zeus, holding each other by the wrist."
    Homeric Hymn 3 to Pythian Apollo 186

    🏛 #Venus statuette from #Pompeii, Naples National Archaeological Museum

    #DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history

  8. Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

    "Meanwhile the rich-tressed Kharites (Graces) and cheerful Horai (Seasons) dance with Harmonia (Harmony) and Hebe (Youth) and Aphrodite, daughter of Zeus, holding each other by the wrist."
    Homeric Hymn 3 to Pythian Apollo 186

    🏛 #Venus statuette from #Pompeii, Naples National Archaeological Museum

    #DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history

  9. Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

    "Meanwhile the rich-tressed Kharites (Graces) and cheerful Horai (Seasons) dance with Harmonia (Harmony) and Hebe (Youth) and Aphrodite, daughter of Zeus, holding each other by the wrist."
    Homeric Hymn 3 to Pythian Apollo 186

    🏛 #Venus statuette from #Pompeii, Naples National Archaeological Museum

    #DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history

  10. Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

    "Meanwhile the rich-tressed Kharites (Graces) and cheerful Horai (Seasons) dance with Harmonia (Harmony) and Hebe (Youth) and Aphrodite, daughter of Zeus, holding each other by the wrist."
    Homeric Hymn 3 to Pythian Apollo 186

    🏛 #Venus statuette from #Pompeii, Naples National Archaeological Museum

    #DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history

  11. Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

    "[The Sabines] made for the gates which [Romulus] had barred, but Saturnia [Hera] herself unlocked, keeping the hinges silent. Only Venus perceived the gate's great bars had dropped and would have closed it but gods are never allowed to undo what gods have done."
    Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.778

    🏛 #Venus, House of the Prince of Naples, Triclinium, #Pompeii

    #DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history

  12. Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

    "[The Sabines] made for the gates which [Romulus] had barred, but Saturnia [Hera] herself unlocked, keeping the hinges silent. Only Venus perceived the gate's great bars had dropped and would have closed it but gods are never allowed to undo what gods have done."
    Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.778

    🏛 #Venus, House of the Prince of Naples, Triclinium, #Pompeii

    #DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history

  13. Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

    "[The Sabines] made for the gates which [Romulus] had barred, but Saturnia [Hera] herself unlocked, keeping the hinges silent. Only Venus perceived the gate's great bars had dropped and would have closed it but gods are never allowed to undo what gods have done."
    Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.778

    🏛 #Venus, House of the Prince of Naples, Triclinium, #Pompeii

    #DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history

  14. Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

    "[The Sabines] made for the gates which [Romulus] had barred, but Saturnia [Hera] herself unlocked, keeping the hinges silent. Only Venus perceived the gate's great bars had dropped and would have closed it but gods are never allowed to undo what gods have done."
    Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.778

    🏛 #Venus, House of the Prince of Naples, Triclinium, #Pompeii

    #DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history

  15. Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

    "[The Sabines] made for the gates which [Romulus] had barred, but Saturnia [Hera] herself unlocked, keeping the hinges silent. Only Venus perceived the gate's great bars had dropped and would have closed it but gods are never allowed to undo what gods have done."
    Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.778

    🏛 #Venus, House of the Prince of Naples, Triclinium, #Pompeii

    #DayOfAphrodite #GreekRomanArt #Aphrodite #antiquidons #history

  16. It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏

    Please, glorious Hermes, be my guide today! 💙

    "Finerod Hermes departed, fanning his light wings, and the flat of his extended shoes oared him as quick as the winds of heaven in their course."
    Nonnus, Dionysiaca 3.373

    🏛️ Hermes fresco, House of the Ancient Hunt, #Pompeii, 1st century CE

    #mythology #antiquidons #DayOfHermes #Hermes #history #GreekRomanArt