POMPEII. The Echo of a Distant Time by Josephus of Cusa. “In Pompeii, the legacy that history has left us does not have the appearance of a dead city, but of a wounded organism, hibernated and slowly brought back to life.”
Pompeii is in the collective imagination one of the places in the world with the greatest evocative power. Here millions of people have the opportunity to feel what a city that remained buried for seventeen centuries has to tell, through its walls, objects, inscriptions, and the bodies of its inhabitants.
Discovered in the eighteenth century, it has been possible to reconstruct the history of the Vesuvian city starting from the seventh century BC, when a small human settlement formed near the volcano, to then flourish under the direct influence of Rome, until the most famous eruption in history in 79 AD.
Today Pompeii is flourishing again with restorations, computerization, excavations and numerous, continuous discoveries: what one of the most precious historical heritages of our planet finally deserves.
Joseph of Cusa (Rome) is an archaeologist. He has worked on archaeological surveys of Italian and foreign sites including the Baths of Caracalla, MAXXI, and the Friday Mosque of Isfahan in Iran. His studies have focused on the spread of Christianity in the Roman Empire, with particular attention to the catacombs of ancient Hadrumetum (Sousse), in Tunisia. Since 2008 he has been a tourist guide in Rome, a profession he still carries out with great passion.
Article published on 3 October 2022 - 10:11
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