Photo Credit: © Mimmo Jodice Are you traveling to Chicago over
the next few months and looking for something interesting to do?
How about visiting the Field Museum and checking out their new
exhibit on Pompeii? The cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in
southern Italy, were buried in the 79 A.D. eruption of Mount
Vesuvius. The story of what happened that day and why the two
cities experienced different fates is told in this exhibit.
Along with a variety of artifacts, you will learn what happened
and why. Vesuvius has erupted 3 dozen times since 79 A.D. Today
over 2 million people live in an area that could be affected by
another eruption. Do we know if another eruption is coming? If
you are interested in Ancient history, volcanoes, geology,
archaeology or simply in a human story of a natural disaster
(complete with human casts), you should see this exhibit. The
Field Museum has put together information about the exhibit on
their web page at http://www.fieldmuseum.org/pompeii. The Todd
Library also has some reso