Pompeii, Buried Alive (by Lewis)

Pompeii was buried by Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD. About 2000 years later, they found carbonized bread in a bakeries oven! They didn't have cars back then, so they used horses to travel. The chariots they used on the horses had iron wheels which left (and preserved) “channels” in the road. They drank a lot of beer and wine (wine was more popular), beer was for unsophisticated people. They worshiped Bacchus (you might know him as Dionysus), the god of wine. They celebrated Iris (an Egyptian god), and it is definitely not normal to celebrate an Egyptian god in a Roman city. Celebrating Iris shows that Egyptians used to be in Pompeii. There’s a lot to learn about the buried city of Pompeii and they are still uncovering it!Read more