These images also confirm the account of the eruption by Pliny the Younger, who was a safe-enough distance away to observe, but close enough to want to flee: “You could hear women shrieking, children screaming, men shouting,” he wrote. (The words are cited on the exhibition walls.) “Some called for their children, others for their parents or husbands.”
Some, he continued, “raised their hands to the gods, but most of them thought there were no gods at all.”
Plus, I'd probably get to hang out with Grant Hart!
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