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<p>[QUOTE="David Atherton, post: 7702868, member: 82616"]A couple of things to note here:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Pompeii is not a city "frozen in time", as the evidence of post eruption looting indicates, both in antiquity and modern times.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. The residents of Pompeii and Herculaneum had plenty of warning signs and time to flee. The paucity of human remains (only several hundred bodies recovered from Pompeii out of an estimated population of 10,000 - 20,000!) is evidence that either an increase in seismic or volcanic activity prior to the main eruption would certainly have been noticed by the local inhabitants.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="David Atherton, post: 7702868, member: 82616"]A couple of things to note here: 1. Pompeii is not a city "frozen in time", as the evidence of post eruption looting indicates, both in antiquity and modern times. 2. The residents of Pompeii and Herculaneum had plenty of warning signs and time to flee. The paucity of human remains (only several hundred bodies recovered from Pompeii out of an estimated population of 10,000 - 20,000!) is evidence that either an increase in seismic or volcanic activity prior to the main eruption would certainly have been noticed by the local inhabitants.[/QUOTE]
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