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<\/a><\/p>\nThere is even a brothel, complete with a pictograph menu so clients who couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t speak the language wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel left out. It is just as busy today as it probably was in 79 AD.<\/p>\n Once the tour is complete, we are free to explore our own. The site is huge and once you break away from the main tourist spots, it is easy to find entire streets all to yourself. It is both amazing and a little unsettling at the same time.<\/p>\n In our travels, my fellow adventurer and I often come across things that speak to our different personalities. Here are two examples from today. Can you guess who picked each one?<\/p>\n Yes, I sure do love that tree.<\/p>\n At the far end of the excavation is the original amphitheater, one of the earliest ever built (Pompeii was already underground when the Colosseum in Rome was completed). The seating areas are mostly grown over but you can still feel a little of what it must have been like for someone standing in the center of the arena, in front of 15,000 cheering Romans.<\/p>\n The most somber part of Pompeii are the plaster casts, showing some of the residents, including children, that never survived the eruption. Because the bodies were buried in ash and rock, as they decomposed, they left detailed cavities in the ground. Archaeologists were able to fill these voids with plaster as they excavated, with the resulting casts capturing the expressions on the victims’ faces as they died.<\/p>\n We poke around a few more corners of the city before calling it a day. There’s still more to see, but after a while your brain just won’t take any more in.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n