Comment by lukeschlather
Comment by lukeschlather 3 months ago
Prior to the industrial revolution most people did not live in stone palaces, and I doubt Pompeii was any exception. The population of Pompeii was 10k-20k people and they were probably supported by one or two orders of magnitude more subsistence farmers living in homes that mostly don't exist today.
I was surprised to see what looked like restaurants. It seemed like they served food to people walking by. They had a counter facing the road with a hole in it. I could imagine a fire inside the hole, with presumably a pot with food above it.
There were a lot of mosaics that were preserved too.
I saw marble in the temples, a bath house, and in the cemetery.
The roads still had ruts carved into the stone from all the carts that had run over them.