Pompeii

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and a small heap of gold and silver coins. Because the restoration and decoration were not finished yet, while a squad of masons was still finishing the roof, and house decorators and painters were still at work in the rooms that had not yet been refitted, the owner thought it probably wise to have his precious silver ware hidden away by a trusted slave within a small and dark recess in the cellar" Maiuri, Amedo ą The author was right in all of his observations but then he starts going off into these assumptions about painters and roofers. He got the information about the painters and roofers probably from finding paintbrushes by them or in the case of the roofers shingles o! r tools used to reroof buildings. Then the author starts on a whole new track of hiding the considerable amount of jewelry and how the other would think it would be wise to hide it with his trusted slave. This was stabbing in the dark because how did he know that the owner of this silver was too rich to ...

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life; it was a large rectangular area surrounded by a two-storied colonnaded portico. Dominating the Forum on the north was the temple of dedicated to the Capitolone triad of deities." "Pompeii" The New Encyclopędia Britannica Micropedia 1992© Encyclopedia Britannica, inc. 15th edition

The encyclopedia determines that the Forum was the center of activity. How would the know this? Sure, they could have found a lot of people there but how would the know if that is where the held religious activities? There could have been several other places in the city where people could have held their activities. Maybe the people that were there when they found the bodies were the to try to hide ...

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