This picture is of a painting on the outside wall of a building within the ancient city of Pompeii. It dates from about 79 A.D. It appears that the men are working on something simular to a propeller. Do you think they used this for drawing well water? I believe the city had water technology like that of Rome but I always thought it was gravity fed.

Artwork- Etruscan?

It looks like they are playing a game, water-pool? in a public fountain. Is that a penguin lurking on the wall in the upper right? haha.

My DH and I toured Pompeii just a year or so before he died. That city had extremely sophisticated waterworks and sewer system. It's built on a hill, and the troughs for the fresh water and for the sewer were built specifically for each type of work--they had high (6" or so) walls so the contents would not spill over. In the roads, the chariots drove on elevated flat-topped rocks, so the rainwater or wastewater could run downhill between the rocks and no person need get his feet in the wet or in the mud.

But in some of the houses, the bodies were frozen in place -- or rather, melted into stone, in the middle of whatever act they were performing, just from the hot lava which came down from Vesuvius. It was an amazing place.

Another interesting pic:

This girl is looking to the heavens trying to figure out why 6 doesn't go into 12 three times:

Maybe she is using hexadecimal - base 16 - in which case the result is exactly right

/Bevin

That's gotta be it! Thanks, Bevin!

hexadecimal. Kids these days are soo smart. ;)

Huh?

Yeah, I'm right there with you, Amelia