Vases in Pompeii Reveal Panic Before Eruption

[Still Waters]

French and Italian archaeologists digging out a pottery workshop in Pompeii have brought to light 10 raw clay vases, revealing a frozen-in-time picture of the exact moment panicked potters realized they were facing an impending catastrophe.

The vases were found sealed under a layer of ash and pumice from Mount Vesuvius' devastating eruption of 79 A.D. and it appears they were just ready to be fired.

http://news.discover...tion-141117.htm

[freetoroam]

They were dropped and abandoned, but just before that the person making them, were making them in anticipation of them being used, so were they ignoring warning signs or were there no warning signs?

[Taun]

They were dropped and abandoned, but just before that the person making them, were making them in anticipation of them being used, so were they ignoring warning signs or were there no warning signs?

Probably a lot of rumbles and smoke and such for a few days maybe even weeks prior... Not likely the average person really had any idea it was all going to go "kablooie" so soon...