Post by anansi on Mar 20, 2018 7:12:09 GMT -5
African Pompeii': Archeologists Digging Up Ancient City Shrouded in Mystery.
{ The lost city of Adulis returns to light, submerged in the 7th century AD probably by a flood caused by a tsunami. Thus a treasure that speaks to the present and to the future is born again from the sand and the mud. Italian-Eritrean mission to discover the "African Pompeii". }
{ A project born some ten years ago from the adventure of the Castiglioni brothers, one of the most famous Italian anthropologists and archaeologists, which allows today to discover step by step the marvelous Adulis, a fundamental piece to understand the ancient world. An immense work made possible only thanks to the Italian-Eritrean cooperation and to the excellence of numerous Italian universities involved in the project.
A city of 40 hectares, of which only 1% has been brought to light at the moment, which leaves archaeologists breathless and attracts curious tourists: three paleochristian basilicas with Byzantine marbles and imposing stone structures. The houses and the necropolis are still to be discovered, an area rich in information on the life of the population of Adulis. The project, funded by the Research Center on the Eastern Desert (Ce.RDO), by Piccini Group as main private sponsor and by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, looks to the future and fully represents the concept of "public archeology".
The archaeological site should in fact become the first national archaeological park of Sub-Saharan Africa, an event that would revitalize the territory from a tourist and economic point of view. Moreover, thanks to archeology it is possible to study the ancient systems of dew pits, thanks to which water was produced, a teaching that therefore comes from the past and proves extremely useful for the future. Sputnik Italia has reached for a deepening the archaeologist Serena Massa, director of the mission.
- Professor Massa, please tell us about the discovery of the "African Pompeii". What are the particularities of this archaeological site?
- This discovery is due to two very important factors. On the one hand there is the will of the Eritrean authorities to enhance their archaeological heritage, on the other the choice of the brothers Alfredo and Angelo Castiglioni, invited by the authorities, who fell on Adulis. Now unfortunately Alfredo is gone, only his brother Angelo Castiglioni remained. Their experience of research in the eastern desert along the Red Sea has led them to choose this site, which was completely buried by sand and mud. That's why, from an idea of Alfredo, parallelism with Pompeii was born. As Pompeii lies beneath meters of volcano ash, so Adulis lies under meters of mud due to the catastrophic event that caused it to end in the seventh century AD. }
www.madote.com/2018/03/italian-eritrean-mission-to-discover.httsunami
Klik for pics of the city,fun fact didn't realized the city was swallowed by a tsunami, I assumed it went into natural decline.
{ The lost city of Adulis returns to light, submerged in the 7th century AD probably by a flood caused by a tsunami. Thus a treasure that speaks to the present and to the future is born again from the sand and the mud. Italian-Eritrean mission to discover the "African Pompeii". }
{ A project born some ten years ago from the adventure of the Castiglioni brothers, one of the most famous Italian anthropologists and archaeologists, which allows today to discover step by step the marvelous Adulis, a fundamental piece to understand the ancient world. An immense work made possible only thanks to the Italian-Eritrean cooperation and to the excellence of numerous Italian universities involved in the project.
A city of 40 hectares, of which only 1% has been brought to light at the moment, which leaves archaeologists breathless and attracts curious tourists: three paleochristian basilicas with Byzantine marbles and imposing stone structures. The houses and the necropolis are still to be discovered, an area rich in information on the life of the population of Adulis. The project, funded by the Research Center on the Eastern Desert (Ce.RDO), by Piccini Group as main private sponsor and by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, looks to the future and fully represents the concept of "public archeology".
The archaeological site should in fact become the first national archaeological park of Sub-Saharan Africa, an event that would revitalize the territory from a tourist and economic point of view. Moreover, thanks to archeology it is possible to study the ancient systems of dew pits, thanks to which water was produced, a teaching that therefore comes from the past and proves extremely useful for the future. Sputnik Italia has reached for a deepening the archaeologist Serena Massa, director of the mission.
- Professor Massa, please tell us about the discovery of the "African Pompeii". What are the particularities of this archaeological site?
- This discovery is due to two very important factors. On the one hand there is the will of the Eritrean authorities to enhance their archaeological heritage, on the other the choice of the brothers Alfredo and Angelo Castiglioni, invited by the authorities, who fell on Adulis. Now unfortunately Alfredo is gone, only his brother Angelo Castiglioni remained. Their experience of research in the eastern desert along the Red Sea has led them to choose this site, which was completely buried by sand and mud. That's why, from an idea of Alfredo, parallelism with Pompeii was born. As Pompeii lies beneath meters of volcano ash, so Adulis lies under meters of mud due to the catastrophic event that caused it to end in the seventh century AD. }
www.madote.com/2018/03/italian-eritrean-mission-to-discover.httsunami
Klik for pics of the city,fun fact didn't realized the city was swallowed by a tsunami, I assumed it went into natural decline.