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Archaeologists May Have Found the Villa Where the Roman Emperor Augustus Died

Excavations north of Mount Vesuvius revealed Roman ruins buried by the eruption in 79 C.E.

After decades of excavations in Italy, archaeologists have discovered a villa that could have belonged to Augustus, the first emperor of Rome.

Since 2002, researchers from the University of Tokyo have been exploring Somma Vesuviana, an archaeological site north of Mount Vesuvius, the volcano that extinguished the ancient city of Pompeii in 79 C.E. Recently, these excavations revealed a structure destroyed by the same eruption.

Researchers think this site could be Augustus’ lost villa. According to the team, Roman sources say Augustus died in a villa north of the mountain in 14 C.E., but the building’s location has never been verified.

“There is a description that [the villa] was consecrated … but its existence has not been identified to this day,” says Mariko Muramatsu, leader of the university’s Somma Vesuviana excavation project, in a translated statement. “In recent years, our excavations have uncovered parts of buildings that were buried during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E. This means that for the first time in this area, a building contemporary with the villa of Emperor Augustus has been found with scientific support.”

The ruins in question actually include two separate villas: one buried in the 79 C.E. eruption and another built on top of it later, reports All That’s Interesting’s Amber Breese. Until recently, researchers had only been aware of the newer structure.

In the older villa, archaeologists identified four rooms containing portions of wall, roof tiles and other ruins. In one chamber, researchers discovered 16 amphorae—tall ancient Roman jars—which were used to transport and store wine. In another, they found “large amounts of charcoal and ash” from a fire they believe was used to heat water for a private bathhouse, “indicating that the villa belonged to a person of great wealth and influence,” per All That’s Interesting.

In the mid-second century, people began constructing new buildings atop the site of the buried villa, using its footprint as a guide. The new construction featured a grand hall filled with brick arches, marble columns and marble statues. Around the fourth century, the site transformed again, becoming a large-scale wine production site. This villa was preserved by another eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 472.

Historians previously thought the damage from Vesuvius’ 79 C.E. eruption at this site was “minor compared to the southeast of the mountain,” but the older villa’s ruins suggest “there was also a destructive impact in this area,” reports La Brújula Verde’s Guillermo Carvajal. Researchers think the structure collapsed due to pyroclastic flows—dense, fast masses of ash and gas expelled by the volcano.

The researchers theorize that Augustus could have once occupied the older villa. Born Gaius Octavius Thurinus, the young man was granted the name Augustus—the “exalted one”—by the Roman Senate in 27 B.C.E. While Augustus didn’t use the title of “emperor” in his lifetime, he was a pivotal figure in Roman history who more than doubled the empire’s size during his 40-year reign.

Researchers from the Somma Vesuviana excavation project hope to expand the scale of their digs. As Muramatsu says in the statement, further exploration could reveal “another Pompeii,” helping historians “trace the achievements of Emperor Augustus and the beginnings of the Roman Empire.”

By Sonja Anderson.

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I was busy thinkin bout

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Excerpt:

After decades of excavations in Italy, archaeologists have discovered a villa that could have belonged to Augustus, the first emperor of Rome.

Since 2002, researchers from the University of Tokyo have been exploring Somma Vesuviana, an archaeological site north of Mount Vesuvius, the volcano that extinguished the ancient city of Pompeii in 79 C.E. Recently, these excavations revealed a structure destroyed by the same eruption.

Researchers think this site could be Augustus’ lost villa. According to the team, Roman sources say Augustus died in a villa north of the mountain in 14 C.E., but the building’s location has never been verified.

“There is a description that [the villa] was consecrated … but its existence has not been identified to this day,” says Mariko Muramatsu, leader of the university’s Somma Vesuviana excavation project, in a translated statement. “In recent years, our excavations have uncovered parts of buildings that were buried during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E. This means that for the first time in this area, a building contemporary with the villa of Emperor Augustus has been found with scientific support.”

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Anche gli angeli sorridono

Alla Biblioteca Alagi di Villa Bruno presentazione del libro Anche gli angeli sorridono di Luca De Lipsis, Armando Curcio Editore SAN GIORGIO A CREMANO | CITTÀ METROPOLITANA DI NAPOLI – Nella Biblioteca di Cultura Vesuviana Sacerdote Giovanni Alagi in via Cavalli di Bronzo di Villa Bruno sabato 17 Febbraio alle ore 18  si terrà la presentazione del libro Anche gli Angeli sorridono di Luca De…

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Night in Herculaneum. House of the Two Atriums.

Photo and text by Laura Noviello /Anima Vesuviana

The splendid domus from the Augustan period is immersed in darkness and is very evocative. The marble threshold of the tablinum separates us from the first atrium, here we are greeted by a large cocciopesto impluvium decorated with polychrome marble slabs and with the addition of the hollow pluteus to accommodate ornamental plants. This environment had the function of a small garden, it housed the lararium for sacred worship and the most beautiful reception rooms. In one of the rooms a wooden chest was found containing an archive of wax tablets, belonging to Herennia Tertia, presumably the last owner.

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in other news amicy è una notizia a che io sia riuscita a prenderla la vesuviana

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una cosa che su tutte mi fa imbestialire, mi fa vedere quella vita non classificata, animale, che è in me è la diamine di vesuviana. ma perché mai non si comprende che un punto essenziale per la transizione ecologica è il trasporto pubblico? ma perché devo aspettare 40 Min la mattina tra un treno e l'altro per andare a lavorare stando con diecimila cristiani nello stesso vagone e pagare un biglietto la bellezza di tre euro?

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Pani carbonizzati provenienti dagli scavi di Pompei ed Ercolano.

Ottantuno di questi pani, a volte frammentati sino a diventare finissima polvere, vennero trovati, nel 1862, nel forno cosiddetto di «Modesto», nella camera di cottura ancora sigillata da una porticina di ferro. Altri resti furono scoperti ogni qualvolta ci si imbatteva in un forno.

Tutto il materiale recuperato tra Pompei e Ercolano venne poi trasportato al Museo archeologico di Napoli per essere conservato nei suoi depositi. Tranne quei pochi pani, esposti nei musei, che erano rimasti quasi intatti o che i restauratori dell'epoca si erano ingegnati a ricostruire, spesso mettendo malamente assieme i pezzi

Il pane consumato in area vesuviana, nel I secolo dopo Cristo, aveva unna caratteristica: era segnato in maniera da poter essere spezzato e diviso facilmente in spicchi. Venica chiamato Panis quadratus.

Con circa trenta panifici pubblici, i pistrina, funzionanti, oltre a quelli casalinghi, Pompei dimostra, dunque, come il pane fosse l'alimento principe dell'epoca.

Disposti lungo gli assi di scorrimento principali (Via Stabiana, Via dell'Abbondanza, Via Consolare) i pistrina producevano numerosi tipi di pane: farreus, di farro; siligineus, di prima qualità; secundarius, di seconda qualità; plebeius, meno raffinato; militaris, dei legionari; nauticus, per i marinai; furfureus, consumato dai poveracci o dai cani.

Testo di Carlo Avvisati, tratto da: il mattino it - napoli-cultura-pompei.

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In questi giorni in tanti ci siamo ricordati di Melania Rea, la sua bimba Vittoria oggi ha tredici anni e porta il cognome della sua mamma, dopo averne fatto richiesta in tribunale. Vittoria vive con i nonni a Somma Vesuviana, viene descritta come una ragazzina determinata e forte, la gioia della famiglia Rea, che non dimentica la dolce Melania. Lo zio Gennaro qualche tempo fa ha voluto dedicarle un post molto toccante su Facebook, ve lo riporto qui. Ricordiamoci quanto sia ancora troppo dura per noi donne, ricordiamoci quanto meritiamo e non dimentichiamo mai di darci sostegno reciproco. Vinciamo ogni esitazione, ogni vecchio cliché e ricordiamoci di stare sempre dalla parte delle donne e quindi dalla nostra. Difendiamoci, difendiamole.

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“Sono trascorsi 12 anni, 12 anni in cui il dolore dentro il nostro cuore non diminuisce mai. In questo giorno la mente ripercorre quei momenti dalla scomparsa al ritrovamento. Momenti di speranza che immediatamente vennero sopraffatti da momenti di disperazione. A Te purtroppo non è concesso di ritornare tra di noi, dalla Tua bimba (oggi una bellissima ragazza), mentre al tuo carnefice viene data questa possibilità e tra qualche anno sarà libero perché qualcuno decise che non ci fosse crudeltà nelle 35 coltellate ricevute. Questa è la giustizia. Cara Melania da lassù proteggi sempre la Tua famiglia e la Tua Vittoria”

Gennaro Rea

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For those who don’t know, I am a big fan of stovetop coffee makers, specifically Bialetti Moka pots, of which I have several. I found a bunch of fun ones recently and thought I’d share them under the cut, along with some Moka history.

One of my daily used ones is the Bialetti Mini Xpress, which makes espresso-akin coffee (I say “akin” because this isn’t done under the same pressure most traditional espresso is made, and I don’t want the coffee nuts getting at me)

Here’s my Mini Express and the cute espresso cups I ordered off of Etsy

(Ignore how dirty it is and the slightly melted handle)

This works like a standard Bialetti Moka Pot, which if you’re unfamiliar, looks like this:

The Moka Pot was invented in 1933, by an italian man named Alfonso Bialetti. These work in an interesting way. The bottom section is filled with water, then ground coffee is loaded into a filter funnel, and when the water boils on the stove top it gets pushed up through the coffee and into the top chamber. Alfonso was inspired by watching laundry women who used a similar device to distribute hot water and soap to their clothes. Here’s a diagram from a different brand but the construction is the same.

My Mini Xpress does the same thing with the water and the filter, the coffee is just pressured to go through the looped spouts instead of to a second chamber, to make it more like traditional espresso.

And there are tons of really fun variations on this format, and I just wanted to share some of my favorites I’ve found!

Moka Alpina:

This is also by Bialetti and it was designed after the Italian Alpini, their mountain infantry, who used to wear these hats with feathers in them. (Side note: I do not support any kind of military, I just thought this was interesting!) I just love how whimsical this one is, how many other coffee makers come with their own hat?

Tea Themed:

I found each of these on Etsy, and I loved how charming they are. They don’t appear to be Bialetti but the teapot like design is so darling. The third one seems more akin to traditional chinese tea pot designs, and I think that’s really fun.

Espressonist:

This is definitely one of the weirder ones I’ve seen. The Etsy listing says it was made by the Bialetti brothers, but its stamped “Vesuviana.” It is a stove top/induction burner, but the espresso hopper implies it can make a more traditional espresso — interesting!

The Hydra:

This one is also on Etsy (noticing a theme here?) and does four shots at once! So I suppose if you’re having guests over, or are just supremely sleepy, this must be nice. I’ve seen a few other of these multi-spout ones, but they don’t seem to be as common as the two spouters.

The tube:

What a fun pop of yellow! This one seems to be by the brand Allegra, which I am unfamiliar with. It looks like instead of the water pushing through the filter and to the second chamber via an internal spout, it goes out through the side and through that proboscis looking spout. Very unique looking, and I wonder what the idea was behind that decision...

The robotos:

These ones remind me of what people in the ‘60s thought robots would look like in the 2000s. Brightly colored and very round. The top one is definitely my favorite, there is something about it that feels very childlike to me.

The trashcan:

I mean... that’s exactly what it looks like right? This one weirds me out because I am so certain that the top and bottom chambers are reversed here, making it upside down. Otherwise if you used the chamber with the spout as the boiling chamber, wouldn’t the water just go through the spout? And if the top chamber (with the upside down handle?) was the coffee chamber, how would you pour the coffee? I’m getting a headache looking at this!

Anyways, those were just a few I found that I thought were interesting, I might make more random long posts about design stuff I like, probably just for me idk who else would be reading these

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Zaoooooo…Buon Mercoledì 👽

La vita è come la Vesuviana..non sai mai quello che ti capita..✌️

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Quando prendi la Vesuviana non viaggi nel tempo, viaggi in universi dove il tempo è un concetto superato.

P.S. preso dal web

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Natività Vesuviana … terra che produce bellezza

Natività Vesuviana … terra che produce bellezza

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Another treasure of the suburban villas of Pompeii.

This ring was found together with bracelets, necklaces and precious objects between 1984 and 1991 in the Villa of Lucius Crassius Tertius in Torre Annunziata. Here a group of fifty-four people sought refuge during the most tragic moments of the eruption of Vesuvius.

Text by Laura Noviello /Anima Vesuviana

the famous two-headed snake

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Apre alle visite il Castello di Lucrezia D’Alagno con Vesuvius mostra in esposizione fino al 28 Settembre.

Rosalinda Perna   (Assessore agli Eventi del Comune di Somma Vesuviana, nel napoletano): “Oggi è uno dei monumenti più belli del territorio vesuviano e anche più visitato con i suoi torrioni panoramici, le molteplici sale quattrocentesche. Si tratta del Castello di Lucrezia D’Alagno risalente al 1458 e realizzato dagli Aragonesi. Domani, dalle ore 17, sarà possibile ammirare la mostra…