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Перевод: Pompeii

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Тезаурус:

1. The 2,800 election notices from Pompeii, hand-painted in red on house walls, show the system at work (fine example in the London "Rediscovering Pompeii" exhibition).
2. But Rediscovering Pompeii is still a powerful reminder that the old can be as shocking in its familiarity as the new in its novelty.
3. It is therefore entirely appropriate that today Pompeii still represents the cutting edge of archaeological research and development.
4. Things began to improve in the nineteenth century, however, when more coordinated methods were employed, and for the first time, digging began to be directed at finding out about Pompeii, rather than making a profit.
5. In 1595, some remains of the city came to light during excavation work for a new aqueduct - a few coins, and some fragments of marble tablets containing inscriptions referring to Pompeii.
6. A consolation for all those waiting for the repeats of Up Pompeii .
7. It was upwind of the volcano, so it escaped the worst of the thick ash-fall that Pompeii experienced, and almost all the population seem to have escaped unharmed - not more than thirty skeletons have been found.
8. It has been said, in fact, that systematic archaeology was born in the ruins of Pompeii.
9. It was the heavy fall of ash from the eruption which brought an abrupt end to the town of Pompeii.
10. What makes Pompeii so special was the manner of its end.
11. At the end of it, both Pompeii and Herculaneum had been obliterated, and thousands of people killed.
12. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when noble families all over Europe were becoming increasingly art-conscious in the wake of the Renaissance and anxious to fill their mansions and palaces with pieces of classical statuary and other antiquities, the remains of Pompeii were ravaged haphazardly, with innumerable random pits being dug in the hope of turning up items of value, particularly small carved figures, vases and pieces of jewellery.
13. Pompeii lay in verdant, wine-growing country and so gave special prominence to Venus, goddess of fecundity, Hercules and Bacchus.