. The story of the ancient nations : a text-book for high schools . details of this picture may be tilled in from the results oithe excavations made at Herenlanenm and Pompeii, whichhave given ns evidence oi the most interesting and most vain-able character. In the principate oi Titus, in August, 70 a. d., the vol-canic mountain Vesuvius, southeast oi Naples, suddenlybroke out into a greateruption. The t wocities lying at the footof the mountain weree o v e r e d b y s m a 11pumice stones andvolcanic ashes. Pom-peii to a depth ofseventeen or eighteenfeet. Hereulaneummuch deeper. In th
. The story of the ancient nations : a text-book for high schools . details of this picture may be tilled in from the results oithe excavations made at Herenlanenm and Pompeii, whichhave given ns evidence oi the most interesting and most vain-able character. In the principate oi Titus, in August, 70 a. d., the vol-canic mountain Vesuvius, southeast oi Naples, suddenlybroke out into a greateruption. The t wocities lying at the footof the mountain weree o v e r e d b y s m a 11pumice stones andvolcanic ashes. Pom-peii to a depth ofseventeen or eighteenfeet. Hereulaneummuch deeper. In theMiddle A^es their ex-istence and location were forgotten. Since the beginning ofthe eighteenth century, excavations have been going on, andthe visitor to Pompeii may now walk through the verystreets and houses oi a Greco-Roman city of long ago. Thelarger part of Hereulaneum has not been excavated at therefore is still to be learned from its depths. 516. The Streets of Pompeii.—Pompeii was a city ofabout inhabitants. Its houses were one and two-. \ lkw ok a CORNEB ok v\ Iruio in \\ riQtnTT. From :i Relief. 410 THE STORY OF ROME story structures, built flush with the sidewalk. The streets,well paved with blocks of lava, were [narrow, varying fromthirty-two feet in width in the better parts of town, to tenfeet in the poorer parts. As the houses had no windows in-^ the lower story, • 5 the visitor must\ e felt that hewas walking in anarrow passageflanked by blank£ a r d e n the een-• terof the city theappearance of thestreets was differ-v ent. Here t heb 1 a n k w allsceased and thelower stories oi the houses were cut up into small shops,which opened upon the street. At night these were closed byheavy screens which were rolled down from above. Passingby when these were open, one might look into barber-shopsand see the barber shaving his customers, or see the poorerpeople sitting at their meals in little cook-shops or chattingin the w
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