2000 years later, we’re still trying to figure out what ancient Pompeii was like. We know they had theaters, temples, and public baths, but that’s not all; it was an entire civilization that a volcano wiped out in an afternoon
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While researchers recently found a new piece of that puzzle, they tell a Smithsonian that they found graffiti in lots of it, 11,000 pieces so far: everything from gladiator drawings, to jokes, to poems, and at least one love note on a wall: one woman asked Venus to bless her boyfriend, but my favorite was a complaint.
Someone said there was too much graffiti, it’s just another reminder that people were and are people even 2000 years ago, wherever you go, there you are.
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Pompeii’s Graffiti Captures Every Joke, Boast and Argument of an Ancient Roman City Frozen in Time
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/pompeiis-graffiti-captures-every-joke-boast-and-argument-of-an-ancient-roman-city-frozen-in-time-180987831/
