Thursday, January 12, 2012

Trash in the gravesites at Pompeii

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-ancient-pompeii-trash-tombs.html
Why are tombs at Pompeii mixed in with garbage dumps? A grad student from Cincinnati presents a paper at AIA on this question. It seems Pompeii did not have a centrally organized plan for disposing of waste.

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