THAT IS A LOOK AT SPORTS FOR
THIS MONDAY.
KEN: ALL RIGHT, THANKS.
RIGHT NOW, THERE IS A NEW
EXHIBIT AT OMSI THAT IS ALL
ABOUT POMPEII, CITY ON WAS
PERFECTLY PRESERVED AFTER A
VOLCANIC ERUPTION.
JENNY: KOHR HARLAN IS THERE THIS
MORNING.
HE'S GIVING US A PEEK AT WHAT
YOU CAN EXPECT.
KOHR: THIS IS A NEAT STORY THE
HAVE BROUGHT TO LIFE HERE AT
OMSI, AN EXHIBIT THAT STARTED ON
SATURDAY AND WILL GO THROUGH
OCTOBER 22.
THE STORY OF POMPEII AND MOUNT
VESUVIUS, ABOUT 2000 YEARS AGO,
MOUNT VESUVIUS ERUPTED AND
BURIED THE TOWN OF POMPEII.
IN BETWEEN 13 AND 20 FEET OF
ASH.
MOST OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN
POMPEII CUT OUT SAFELY, BUT
ABOUT 2000 PEOPLE UNFORTUNATELY
PERISHED AND WERE ESSENTIALLY
HARRIED ALIVE IN THIS COLUMN OF
ASH.
THEY BROUGHT SOME OF THAT BACK
TO LIFE HERE IN THIS EXHIBIT.
THEY SHOW HOW PEOPLE LIVED
INITIALLY IN POMPEII.
THEY SHOWED THE ABRUPTION AND
THE AFTERMATH OF WHAT HAPPENED
IN THE CORRUPTION -- THEY SHOWED
THE ERUPTION AND THE AFTERMATH.
ABOUT 2000 YEARS AFTER THE
ERUPTION, SOME PEOPLE STARTED
DOING EXCAVATION AND FOUND EMPTY
CAVITIES.
SOME FILLED THEM IN WITH
PLASTER, AND THESE ARE THE
SHAPES THEY FOUND BURIED.
AND THIS IS JENNIFER POWERS.
THESE ARE SOME OF THE SHAPES
THEY FOUND, AND THEY WERE
ESSENTIALLY PEOPLE THAT WERE
BURIED IN THIS COLUMN OF AH.
-- COLUMN OF ASH.
IT IS FASCINATING.
JENNIFER POWERS PUT A LOT OF
THIS EXHIBIT TOGETHER FOR US AT
OMSI.
ALL THE SETUP ASIDE NOW, WHAT
ARE THESE SCULPTURES?
THEY TELL US A LOT OF REALLY
EXCITING THINGS.
THESE BODY CASTS, THE WAY THEY
WERE FOUND CAN TELL US A LOT
ABOUT WHO THE PEOPLE WERE, WHERE
THEY LIVED, AND ALSO HOW THEY
DIED.
KOHR: THIS IS A MOTHER AND A
CHILD HERE.
AND THEY WERE ACTUALLY FOUND
WITH REALLY BEAUTIFUL GOLD
BRACELETS IN A VERY BIG HOUSE.
WE CAN EXTRAPOLATE THEY WERE
VERY WEALTHY.
WE CAN ALSO TELL BY THE
DIFFERENT GROUPINGS OF BODY
CASTS HOW PEOPLE LIVED, LIKE HOW
WELL THEY WERE OR IF
THEY WERE
SERVANTS, WHAT KIND OF BUILDING
THEY MIGHT HAVE WORKED IN.
ALSO, SOME OF THE BODY CASTS
HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN SCANNED, AND
WE FIND THAT THERE ARE SOMETIMES
BONES OR FRAGMENTS OF FABRIC.
THEY CAN
TELL US ABOUT WHAT KIND
OF FABRICS THEY MAY HAVE HAD,
WHAT KIND OF BONE STRUCTURE, HOW
THEY LIVED IN HOW THEY WORK AND
ALSO HOW THEY DIED.
KOHR: REALLY COOL.
THIS IS THE WHOLE EXHIBIT HALL
FILLED WITH THESE CASTS THAT
HAVE BEEN TAKEN OF PEOPLE
ESSENTIALLY FOUND AS THEY DIED,
BURIED IN THIS 20 FOR BED OF ASH
FROM MOUNT VESUVIUS.
THIS IS REALLY A STORY ABOUT HOW
THEY LIVED IN POMPEII, THE
ERUPTION THAT BURIED THEIR
ANCIENT TOWN IN ALL OF THIS
ASH, AND HOW THESE FOLKS WERE
FOUND.
THIS DOG IS VERY TELLING, TOO, A
DOG THAT WAS A GUARD IN FRONT OF
SOMEBODY'S HOUSE.
THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN A COLLAR.
SO THIS WAS A FAMILY DOG.
EXACTLY TO REVIEW CAN TELL BY
THE BRONZE STUDS ON HIS CALLER
THAT HE WAS NOT JUST A RANDOM
STRAY DOG.
HE WAS ACTUALLY A GUARD ON, AND
HE STAYED BEHIND.
THE HOUSE HE WAS FOUND IN FRONT
OF WAS EMPTY, BUT HE WAS LEFT
BEHIND TO GUARD THAT HOUSE.
KOHR: THIS IS REALLY COOL.
THERE ARE A LOT OF HAIR LULLS
BETWEEN THIS AND MOUNT ST.
HELENS.
NEXT, WE WILL SHOW YOU A
SEISMOGRAPH THEY SET UP IN THE
NEXT ROOM HERE.
A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT MOUNT
ST. HELENS, THE ASH FLOW
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