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Pliny the Younger was a DWEEB

Pliny the Younger was a DWEEB

https://piefed.social/c/roughromanmemes/p/1851315/pliny-the-younger-was-a-dweeb

Pliny the Younger was a DWEEB

Pliny the Younger was a DWEEB

Pliny the Younger was a DWEEB

https://piefed.social/c/roughromanmemes/p/1851315/pliny-the-younger-was-a-dweeb

Pliny the Younger was a DWEEB

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1850126/pliny-the-younger-was-a-dweeb

Pliny the Younger was a DWEEB

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1850126/pliny-the-younger-was-a-dweeb

Pliny the Younger was a DWEEB

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1850126/pliny-the-younger-was-a-dweeb

Pliny the Younger was a DWEEB

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1850126/pliny-the-younger-was-a-dweeb

Pliny the Younger was a DWEEB

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1850126/pliny-the-younger-was-a-dweeb

Pliny the Younger was a DWEEB

https://piefed.social/c/roughromanmemes/p/1850123/pliny-the-younger-was-a-dweeb

Pliny the Younger was a DWEEB

https://piefed.social/c/roughromanmemes/p/1850123/pliny-the-younger-was-a-dweeb

RE: https://social.uibk.ac.at/@uniinnsbruck/115972142132584167

The #ancient #Roman #city of #Pompeii at the Gulf of #Naples offers remarkably #wellpreserved #insights into #dailylife before it was buried by Mount #Vesuvius in 79 AD. G. Sürmelihindi et al. (2026) investigated the #carbonate #incrustations in the #baths, the #aqueduct, and in #wells, with the latter being replaced by the penultimate as #technical #improvement. The periodicity of #δ13C variations from wells and republican #pools indicated poor #hygienicconditions.
©this text #StefanFWirth 2026

RE: https://social.uibk.ac.at/@uniinnsbruck/115972142132584167

The #ancient #Roman #city of #Pompeii at the Gulf of #Naples offers remarkably #wellpreserved #insights into #dailylife before it was buried by Mount #Vesuvius in 79 AD. G. Sürmelihindi et al. (2026) investigated the #carbonate #incrustations in the #baths, the #aqueduct, and in #wells, with the latter being replaced by the penultimate as #technical #improvement. The periodicity of #δ13C variations from wells and republican #pools indicated poor #hygienicconditions.
©this text #StefanFWirth 2026

RE: https://social.uibk.ac.at/@uniinnsbruck/115972142132584167

The #ancient #Roman #city of #Pompeii at the Gulf of #Naples offers remarkably #wellpreserved #insights into #dailylife before it was buried by Mount #Vesuvius in 79 AD. G. Sürmelihindi et al. (2026) investigated the #carbonate #incrustations in the #baths, the #aqueduct, and in #wells, with the latter being replaced by the penultimate as #technical #improvement. The periodicity of #δ13C variations from wells and republican #pools indicated poor #hygienicconditions.
©this text #StefanFWirth 2026

RE: https://social.uibk.ac.at/@uniinnsbruck/115972142132584167

The #ancient #Roman #city of #Pompeii at the Gulf of #Naples offers remarkably #wellpreserved #insights into #dailylife before it was buried by Mount #Vesuvius in 79 AD. G. Sürmelihindi et al. (2026) investigated the #carbonate #incrustations in the #baths, the #aqueduct, and in #wells, with the latter being replaced by the penultimate as #technical #improvement. The periodicity of #δ13C variations from wells and republican #pools indicated poor #hygienicconditions.
©this text #StefanFWirth 2026

RE: https://social.uibk.ac.at/@uniinnsbruck/115972142132584167

The #ancient #Roman #city of #Pompeii at the Gulf of #Naples offers remarkably #wellpreserved #insights into #dailylife before it was buried by Mount #Vesuvius in 79 AD. G. Sürmelihindi et al. (2026) investigated the #carbonate #incrustations in the #baths, the #aqueduct, and in #wells, with the latter being replaced by the penultimate as #technical #improvement. The periodicity of #δ13C variations from wells and republican #pools indicated poor #hygienicconditions.
©this text #StefanFWirth 2026

YOU'RE MORE IMPORTANT, PLINY, YOU HAVE TO LIVE

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1771281/you-re-more-important-pliny-you-have-to-live

YOU'RE MORE IMPORTANT, PLINY, YOU HAVE TO LIVE

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1771281/you-re-more-important-pliny-you-have-to-live

YOU'RE MORE IMPORTANT, PLINY, YOU HAVE TO LIVE

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1771281/you-re-more-important-pliny-you-have-to-live

YOU'RE MORE IMPORTANT, PLINY, YOU HAVE TO LIVE

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1771281/you-re-more-important-pliny-you-have-to-live

YOU'RE MORE IMPORTANT, PLINY, YOU HAVE TO LIVE

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1771281/you-re-more-important-pliny-you-have-to-live

YOU'RE MORE IMPORTANT, PLINY, YOU HAVE TO LIVE

YOU'RE MORE IMPORTANT, PLINY, YOU HAVE TO LIVE

https://piefed.social/c/roughromanmemes/p/1771275/you-re-more-important-pliny-you-have-to-live

YOU'RE MORE IMPORTANT, PLINY, YOU HAVE TO LIVE

YOU'RE MORE IMPORTANT, PLINY, YOU HAVE TO LIVE

https://piefed.social/c/roughromanmemes/p/1771275/you-re-more-important-pliny-you-have-to-live

YOU'RE MORE IMPORTANT, PLINY, YOU HAVE TO LIVE

https://piefed.social/c/roughromanmemes/p/1771275/you-re-more-important-pliny-you-have-to-live

Sorrento - Marina Grande (con Vesuvio)

#Landscapes #Photography #Outdoors #Nature #Water #Sky #Sea #Day #Tranquility #TranquilScene #Cloud
#Vesuvius #fishermen

@Gizmodo @science-Gizmodo
@ai6yr

Why is this debate framed as "new"?? It's not new at all!

It might also have been helpful to tell readers where the August date comes from: It's from the famous letter of Pliny the Younger who witnessed the famous eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.

BUT, we don't have his original letter. His letter - like almost all written texts from antiquity - is preserved because it was copied later, especially in the Middle Ages (mostly by monks). And they made mistakes while copying. So one theory goes: What if a monk made a mistake (only several letters) and originally the letter mentioned a date in autumn?

But I guess we will get texts that claim "New developments! Was the 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius really in August?" for the next decades. Like we did in the last decades.

#Vesuvius #Pompeii #Pliny

🗳️ Schon vor 2000 Jahren kämpften Politiker um Stimmen – mit Graffiti, Brot und kleinen Geschenken. Klingt bekannt?

➡️ Lies den Kurzartikel:
🔗 https://www.miss-jones.de/2024/03/15/wahlkampf-vor-2000-jahren/

#Pompeji #Antike #Wahlkampf #RömischeGeschichte #Archäologie #AntikePolitik #Graffiti #AulusRustiusVerus #BäckereiPompeji #GeschichteVerstehen #RömischeKultur #HistorischerWahlkampf #vesuvius

LA MUETTE DE PORTICI

The 2024/25 season is slowly coming to an end, and our last performance of « Muette » is just around the corner. I would like to share this beautiful illustration of Mount Vesuvius erupting, taken from the back of the toi-toi-toi cards that my husband made for the premiere in April.

ℹ️ https://www.staatstheater-darmstadt.de/veranstaltungen/die-stumme-von-portici-la-muette-de-portici.1806/

🗓️ June 27
🕢 19:30
📍 Staatstheater Darmstadt

#opera #Hessen #Darmstadt #operaSinger #Auber #grandOpéra #linocut #linoprint #mastoart #illustration #art #vesuvius

#Art
Portrait of #Codina (believed to be Lady Hamilton’s #poodle), the Bay of #Naples with a British Man-of-War and #Vesuvius beyond - #Neapolitan School, 19th Century.
🐶
#Arte
Retrato de Codina (acaso la poodle de #LadyHamilton), en la bahía de #Nápoles, con un #barco de guerra británico y el #Vesubio al fondo. #Anónimo (escuela napolitana), s. XIX
#pintura #painting #perros #dogs

𝗨𝗶𝘁𝗯𝗮𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗩𝗲𝘀𝘂𝘃𝗶𝘂𝘀 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗵𝘁𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗴𝗹𝗮𝘀

Wetenschappers hebben, bijna tweeduizend jaar na de verwoestende uitbarsting van de vulkaan Vesuvius in Italië, ontdekt dat daarbij de hersens van een ongeveer 20-jarige man in één klap zijn veranderd in glas.

https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/buitenland/artikel/5496779/hersens-van-glas-uitbarsting-vesuvius

#Vesuvius #uitbarsting #hersens

A Minute-By-Minute Account Of The Pompeii Eruption, Revealed In Agonizing Detail
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https://www.science.org/content/article/minute-minute-account-pompeii-eruption-revealed-agonizing-detail <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2024-071 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2024-072 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #timeline #reconstruction #model #modeling #Italy #Naples #Roman #79CE #eruption #volcanic #volcano #geology #engineeringgeology #Campanian #Pompeii #Herculaneum #ancienthistory #eyewitness #history #risk #hazard #naturalhazard #naturaldisaster #publicsafety #Vesuvius #debris #pyroclastic #gas #nueeardente #deposition #Pliny #PlinyTheYounger #geologicmapping #fieldwork #romanempire #impact #cost #economics #infrastructure #lossoflife #deaths

@fmhilton

There's important context missing in this article. It wasn't Pliny the Younger himself who was "accused" of getting the date of Vesuvius' eruption wrong - after all, he was close and his uncle died.
However, we don't have his original letters. Like other texts from antiquity, it was preserved because it was copied over centuries.
And when people copy texts, they make mistakes. Often, editors of ancient texts have to work with several medieval manuscripts that differ in several ways and must then decide on a version they think is closest to the original text, which is then published.
In the case of this famous letter, the text edition said "nonum kal. septembres" (nine days before the Kalendae of September = August 24th) but when archaeological findings gave hints on a later date, classics researchers started to wonder whether someone in the Middle Ages had made a copying mistakes - after all, that mistake would only need 3-4 letters to be different (for instance, december instead of september). That's where this theory comes from. Researches have always assumed that Pliny himself knew the correct date, for obvious reasons.

#Pliny #Pompeii #Vesuvius

A #Stratovolcano, also known as a composite #Volcano, is a large, cone-shaped volcano with steep sides that's built up from layers of lava and ash.

Stratovolcanoes are more cone-shaped than shield volcanoes. Some famous stratovolcanoes include Mount #Vesuvius and Mount Rainier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratovolcano

18-JUL-2024
#Pompeii skeleton discovery shows another natural disaster may have made #Vesuvius eruption even more deadly
Scientists think that skeletons of individuals trapped and killed inside buildings by #earthquakes during the #79CE eruption of Vesuvius could provide a more complete history of destruction

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1050523 #science #RomanHistory

New dig at Pompeii - More stunning art works:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68777741
#Pompeii #archaeology #Roman #Rome #Vesuvius #art #79CE

Mind-blown by this story about the outcome of the “Vesuvius Challenge”: how to read burned and carbonized papyrus scrolls that cannot be opened?

Well, make a 3D CT scan, use the images to virtually unfold, recognize the ink drops, and off you go. Amazing work by three students (from Berlin, Nebraska and ETH Zurich).

Wonderful initiative by Nat Friedman.

https://scrollprize.org/grandprize

#VesuviusChallenge #Vesuvius #Papyrus #Naples

Naples Retrofuture...

66m of sea level rise on top of a 1793 map of Naples, from David Rumsey Maps.

The Retrofuture series looks backward and forward, to expand our thinking of time.

More: https://conspiracyofcartographers.com/

#italy #naples #napoli #italia #vesuvius #vesuvio #herculaneum #pompeii #maps #vintagemaps #retrofuture #solarpunk #searisemaps #sealevelrise #sealevelrisemaps #climatechange #climatechangemaps #maps #cartography #conspiracyofcartographers

#View of the #Vesuvius (1812) by Franz Ludwig #Catel

#Vesuvius #Challenge

"The #VesuviusChallenge is a #MachineLearning and #ComputerVision #competition to read the #Herculaneum #Papyri."

https://scrollprize.org/

British engineering firm Vesuvius suffers cyberattack

Vesuvius, a London-headquartered molten metal flow engineering firm, gas disclosed it was "currently managing a cyber incident" that involved unauthorised access to its systems.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4074020/british-engineering-firm-vesuvius-suffers-cyberattack

#technews #Vesuvius #cybersecurity #infosec #FTSE250 #UK

British engineering firm Vesuvius suffers cyberattack

Vesuvius, a London-headquartered molten metal flow engineering firm, gas disclosed it was "currently managing a cyber incident" that involved unauthorised access to its systems.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4074020/british-engineering-firm-vesuvius-suffers-cyberattack

#technews #Vesuvius #cybersecurity #infosec #FTSE250 #UK

British engineering firm Vesuvius suffers cyberattack

Vesuvius, a London-headquartered molten metal flow engineering firm, gas disclosed it was "currently managing a cyber incident" that involved unauthorised access to its systems.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4074020/british-engineering-firm-vesuvius-suffers-cyberattack

#technews #Vesuvius #cybersecurity #infosec #FTSE250 #UK

British engineering firm Vesuvius suffers cyberattack

Vesuvius, a London-headquartered molten metal flow engineering firm, gas disclosed it was "currently managing a cyber incident" that involved unauthorised access to its systems.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4074020/british-engineering-firm-vesuvius-suffers-cyberattack

#technews #Vesuvius #cybersecurity #infosec #FTSE250 #UK

Floor pavements in Pompeii illustrate surveying technology - Enlarge (credit: L. FERRO, G MAGLI, M. OSANNA)
Decorative pavements in the floor of a recently un... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1628795 #ancientpeopledidstuff #ancientrome #archaeology #romanempire #vesuvius #science #pompeii #rome

Unexploded World War II bombs may still be buried at Pompeii - Mt. Vesuvius erupted in March 1944. (credit: American B-25 Mitchell Bombers Flying Past Vesuvius, M... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1532467 #unexplodedordnance #archaeology #worldwarii #vesuvius #science #pompeii #bombs

@horrowfide @chucknorrisfacts #buoys and #gulls and indistinguishable guests... lolz.

Well #folks, here is a painting of #Pliny the Younger documenting the destruction of #Pompeii on my birthday, 24 August 79. (no, not 1979, just plain old 79AD).

If you zoom in and look really closely, you can see Pliney the Elder's ship being buried beneath the rubble and Ash from #Vesuvius' eruption.

☠️ Stop using #Twatter

☠️ Stop using #Faceplant

Stop posting links there too.

Bury them!