The Jandal Crew

The Jandal Crew

Sunday, May 31, 2015

Herculeum #lol connor was here


Herculeum

We went to Herculeum which was a village like Pompei that got buried by the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79AD.

It was lots of fun because we could see how back 2000 years ago they built stuff
 






 
 

I also took funny photos because I was bored.


 

I was AMAZED how there were still carvings on the walls after 2000 years







 

Some houses were bigger than others and the owners had many slaves.  All houses were built with an identical layout that included a winter garden where there was hole in the roof where rain came through and was captured in the pond beneath.  This water was used to clean the house by the slaves.  The bedrooms, kitchen and office was around the edge of this pond.  The summer garden was just like a NZ garden with the bedrooms based around the garden. 




 

And it was a fishing village right by the sea but then it got covered by the volcano and now it’s more than 1km away from the sea.

From #lol connor was here

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