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Excavations at Pompeii<br />
Fiorella organised his excavation workers so nothing was left to chance. He made records of all<br />
discoveries and, for a time, they were left where they were found on the site for further<br />
examination. A detailed plan of the site was drawn and the exact location of each find was<br />
recorded on it. His plan divided the town into regions, which were numbered. Within those<br />
regions the insulae (blocks of houses like our modern flats) were also numbered. Because he was so careful<br />
and methodical, scholars were able to work out what buildings had been used for and who had lived in them.<br />
He also devised a method of entering buildings from above to prevent the walls collapsing.<br />
Fiorella’s most famous innovation was his idea of filling underground cavities with liquid plaster. When the<br />
plaster solidified it took an impression of what had once caused the cavity. This was usually a body or a<br />
wooden item, both of which had decomposed over the centuries.<br />
TEACHERS<br />
N OTE<br />
Viewing Sample<br />
Activity Suggestion<br />
Pupils write notes and illustrate another disaster which has caused devastation and loss of life like<br />
Pompeii, e.g. the Titanic, Krakatoa, Great Fire of London, the San Francisco earthquake, Chernobyl, the<br />
Hindenburg, the bubonic plague.<br />
– 10 – <strong>Ancient</strong> <strong>Rome</strong> Prim-Ed Publishing www.prim-ed.com
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