I'll bet that really puts some perspective on the world we have today.
It definitely does for me, people back then were the same as we are now, they did very well to survive without our modern technology...
We also went to Mykonos, Greece and walked the ruins of Delos... again for miles up and down the beautiful hills... Delos is an active archeological site where they're still digging and uncovering things... only twelve neighborhoods have been unearthed, there are several dozen more to go, the place was huge, it was a central trade center...
The only difference between Delos and Pompeii was that Delos had no running water, but the homes and everything looked very familiar... everything looked so familiar because Greece was the birthplace of Western thought and design, many of the things we see today originated from Greece...
Even though they had no running water, their water was still very drinkable because they mixed a chalk based substance into their water in the evening, overnight the chalk would sink to the bottom along with all the impurities, this made the water fresh and very clean in the morning, much like the water filters we use today...
Delos is much older that Pompeii... at it's peak, Delos had 50,000 residents, a music hall, government buildings, and so on... one day, the Romans invaded Delos, they murdered 30,000 people and took the other 20,000 back to Rome as slaves...
We also visited the ruins of Ephesus in Turkey... now, that was a modern city at the time with four story condos with floor plans to rival any highly upscale beach front condos today...
We're not archeologists, but since we were close by, what the heck... we also looked around Athens while we were in Greece...
These stops were part of the cruise we were on... the people on the cruise were themselves very old, you couldn't put a glass of water down without someone dropping their teeth in it... in fact, some of the passengers were so ancient, that when we got off the ship to look at the ruins in Athens, the people from Athens came to the ship to look at the passengers...
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