Everyone knows Pompeii, which, according to official history, died under a layer of volcanic ash during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. But there is another version with the date of the death of this city. According to it, the date of the eruption of Vesuvius is postponed from August 24, 79 to December 16, 1631. There is a work called "Not the last day of Pompeii" - you can easily find it on the net and get acquainted with the facts why the author of this version decided so.
There, and about the medieval artifacts found during excavations (steel medical instruments, glass) and the water conduit of engineer Domenico Fontana in 1594, laid below the level of the walls of the city's buildings, etc. We will not touch on the dating of the event yet, but compare other facts.
With such a large-scale eruption of Vesuvius, more than one city of Pompeii perished. Herculaneum is known to a lesser extent. The city is located on the western slopes of Vesuvius and did not completely die from the falling ash. It was carried by pyroclastic flows that descended from the slopes of the volcano.
Even less known is the city of Stabiae south of Pompeii. Could it be that there were no more cities around the volcano, which has repeatedly erupted over millennia and covered the earth with fertile ash? Check out the modern map:
Dozens of modern cities and villages. And many of them go back to the Middle Ages. Those. logically, some were built on top of the buried buildings from the eruption of Vesuvius, or the cities were dug up without any PR campaigns (as happened with Pompeii). But what about Naples? It is a big city. Did he not suffer from the eruptions (i) in 79 and 1631? By the way, there is a plaque on one of the buildings about the date of the eruption of Vesuvius in 1631.
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Ruins of supposedly Greek walls at Piazza Bellini, in the center of Naples. Solutionless laying of large blocks at a depth of about 4-5 m. What are the Greek walls doing here? It turns out that the entire south of the Apennine Peninsula, almost half of Italy is the ancient Greek colonies:
This is a separate interesting topic about the remains of the ancient world not on the territory of modern Greece. The history of this region is highly intertwined. A short example from history: the Roman Empire appeared on the remains of the Etruscan civilization, and the Etruscans fought with Great Greece. After the defeat at the Battle of Kumah, the Etruscans disappeared. Later, during the Punic Wars, Ancient Rome finally defeated Ancient Greece.
Ancient Greek Temple of Apollo, Paestum.
But the mentions that ancient Naples suffered in 79 or 1631. not. How then to explain some ancient ruins at such a depth? Probably, the history of Naples has more ancient roots, antique. And these ancient buildings, like Pompeii, were destroyed. Not only from the repeated eruptions of Vesuvius. West of Naples, you can see the following picture in space images from a height:
Many cones of sleeping volcanoes, calderas and a lake that looks like the remains of a collapsed cone. Or maybe some of them are ancient mud volcanoes? All of them are located in the Pozzuoli area. Scientists suggest that there is a mouth of a supervolcano like Ieluston.
Circolo Golf Napoli. Golf courses in the caldera of one such ancient volcano and the volcanic lake Averno. Next to the lake, an interesting photo of the ruins of something huge came across in Google maps:
Something huge made of bricks.
In geology, there may be information about these volcanoes, but there is no information in the history of their eruptions. I do not exclude that they erupted not millions of years ago, but during antiquity.
Astroni Crater. How do you size? Diameter 1.7 km. A small lake has been preserved inside. The third slide - a photo from an airplane conveys the scale of geotectonic processes that once raged here much better than Google maps. To the south of the crater are Phlegrean fields with the following views:
Could it have happened that the catastrophe, traces of which are visible on the surface, led to the redivision of that world, wars, the disappearance of antiquity, the fall of Ancient Greece and the emergence of the Roman Empire? The latter, as a version, existed until the beginning of the 17th century, when most of the world was covered with volcanic, dust, mud and other emissions?
Author: sibved