Thursday, January 06, 2011

Pompeii - Life in a Roman town 79CE

Visited the exhibits at the National Museum yesterday.  Joined the guided tour and got a pretty good narrator, I didn't know that this is the first time they are exhibiting stuff outside of Pompeii itself - we are blessed, Singapore!

It ranged from interesting (Pompeii people ate out a lot in restaurants, cafes 2000 years ago!), to funny (there was a mosiac floor warning to 'beware of dog', just like us today!), to religious (there was no traces of Christianity even though Jesus had already died & resurrected earlier), to sad (the plastic casts moulds of people/animals in death).

A good exhibit, well worth visiting.  Am glad I went on a week day so it wasn't too crowded.  Yeah, there were still strangely, a lot of visitors.

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