Objects at an Exhibition

seamtrix and I went to the Field Museum to catch the Pompeii exhibit before it leaves in a few weeks.

This is the largest exhibit of artifacts from Pompeii and Herculaneum to ever leave Italy. I've done some reading and watched several documentaries on the eruption, but I was not prepared for the emotional impact this exhibit would have on me.

It used to be thought that the people from Herculaneum had had enough warning to get away because there were relatively few bodies found in the city. Then, in 1982, they started excavating the boathouses on the beach and learned the awful truth - people had run all right, but they ony made it as far as the beach, hoping for boats that never came.

( death and silver spoons.... )