Pompei

Friday. That was the best day of the entire trip.

First stop - the Archaeological Museum! Huge, huge collection of daily life objects from the ancient city of Pompei, and in case you need a briefing: this is the city that in 79AD was buried under 6 meters of ash and rock from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Everything was super well preserved (including carbon based things such as people, bread, animals - which were "preserved" in the form of cavities that were filled with plaster) and so this city gives classics scholars an enormous amount of info for daily life in the Roman Empire.

musical instruments - pipes, castanets

cosmetic supplies

bowls etc.

Strigil!!!! If you know what that is, you are an awesome person

Cave Canem :)

From there we went to the site of Pompei itself! We walked around the ancient streets, visited the ancient houses and theatres, saw the ancient artwork, studied some ancient people (literally), and soaked in the ancient awesomeness.

speaking of 'cave canem,' there were some dogs that followed our group the whole time we were there..

one of the rooms of a house, everything was well painted/decorated in the ancient world

atrium of a house, the "impluvium" was the basin under the hole in the roof of the atrium for catching rainwater

theatre :)

painting of venus behind a houses' garden

Cornelius Pompeius Mortuus Plasterus