Why is Pompeii important to historians?

Answer 1

Because this ancient city was quickly covered by volanic ash, rather than being continuously used by successive generations, it serves as a time capsule of life at the time the volcanic eruption occurred.

Here's what an article had to say about it:

The discovery of Pompeii is of huge importance for our modern-day understanding of the ancient Roman-Italic world - partly because the more public and monumental ruins left behind by Imperial Rome have often been misleading.

'The excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum ... offer an intact vision of daily life in a Roman society in all its aspects.'
Their ruination and destruction left crucial questions unanswered, and made it impossible in many ways to gather a satisfactory understanding of the Roman world from them. Ancient Greek and Roman texts are also often obscure and enigmatic, because the ancient writers naturally took for granted, and did not explain, things that the modern reader cannot begin to guess at.

The excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum, by contrast, offer an intact vision of daily life in a Roman society in all its aspects. They have produced not only many treasures, but also many objects that are less precious but extremely useful for the understanding of everyday life during the years of the Roman empire. In the buildings of these towns - from the monumental to the most simple - the ancient world appears in all its complexity, with great clarity.

Answer 2

Important Historians

Answer 3

Because every thing is so well preserved,I have been to Pompeii and it is very eerie.People just going about there everyday life and the volcano covered them in molten ash thy were all turned into statues running from the eruption,There are even dog,s running it is a very strange place

Answer 4

Because the remains are so very well preserved and intact. It is fascinating to study ancient cultures. Pompeii afforded modern society a chance to glimpse back to the past.

Answer 5

Due to the way it was preserved, Pompeii is a snapshot of ancient Rome.

Answer 6

Because of the sudden stopping of life there, it took a snapshot of life in Roman times. Then with the ash covering it, it preserved it till uncovered.

Answer 7

Because it was buried under a volcano and it preserved the remains of the city so well that it gives them great insight into how the ancient culture lived.

Answer 8

Because it is a almost completely preserved city because of the blast from Mt. Vesuvius.

Answer 9

because the city was "mummified", so to speak, by an exploding volcano, so archaeologists can study what life was like in the city at the date of the eruption.

Answer 10

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