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#Italy: The Iliad at Pompeii. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundatio

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 13 April 2024

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#Italy: The Iliad at Pompeii. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/other/archaeologists-make-stunning-find-of-banquet-hall-in-pompeii/ar-BB1lx2eM

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0:00.0

This is CVSI and the world. I'm John Bachelor to Italy. To Lorenzo Fiore of the Anseldo Foundation and we immediately travel in time to 79 AD.

0:17.0

Mount Vesuvius explodes, bearing Pompeii and Herculaneum and other parts of the Roman Empire under Ash.

0:26.5

It is now nearly 2,000 years later.

0:29.8

And Lorenzo, I thought everything in Pompeian Herculaneum had been catalogued and was being studied,

0:37.5

and even the parchment that were burned badly, they found a new way to decipher some of them without having to

0:43.7

enroll them and destroy them. But now there's been a discovery that is so

0:47.9

spectacular it looks like it was just created. Looks like it's on TV in 3D. What have they found? Good evening to you.

0:55.6

Good evening to you. Good evening, John, and good evening to all the radio listeners. Let me say that we have to thank

1:00.3

today the eruption of volcano that preserves such magnificent cultural heritage

1:07.6

which is a cultural heritage not only of Italy but of all the humanity. And so we have a new discovery as you said a

1:16.8

beautiful blanket all with a fantastic fresco that goes through some of the most important myth of the ancient Greek,

1:28.0

particularly the Troyia War. And there is a fresco showing Cassandra who was the daughter of one of the

1:40.0

gods which of course denied something and he became not credible to anybody else.

1:49.2

So it's a very interesting myth as well as the picture of the fresco of the brother of Cassandra Paridae

1:57.3

who fall in love with Eleanor, the Queen of Troy and that was the cause of the start of the war between Athens and Troye, which brought the Troya destruction.

2:08.0

So the preservation quality of this fresco is unbelievable. I do suggest any radio listener to Google on the web

2:20.0

and look for, let's's say the representation of this beautiful bank at all, well

2:27.5

preserved by the amount of usher that came out from Vesuvio, the volcano during that destructive eruption.

2:35.2

What's exciting for me is that after two or three hundred years of people visiting the sites

2:40.0

and being amazed at what they discover buried under the ash.

2:43.6

We're still finding new things here in the 21st century.

2:47.2

There are mysteries to be discovered.

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