Pompeii

Today I visited Pompeii, which lies just outside Naples, Italy. Now I have been lucky enough to have traveled a vast majority of the world and have visited many, many amazing places, but this place truly was one of the best. I love history, and I love visiting these ancient, preserved places. Visualizing what life would have been like back then, painting a picture in my head of how people went about there life's. Well the reason I think today was such a eye opener for me was because it made me realise, that life then really isn't any different to life now. Pompeii is a big town, and before it was destroyed in AD 79, the place was thriving. It was set up like any town or city is now. Streets and Pavements all lined up parallel to each other, filled with homes and shops. The streets were named as they are now, the stores all carried the same things they do now. Clothes and shoes, Restaurants and Fast food places, Barbers and Hairdressers, Coffee and Tea houses. There are Theaters and Sports Arenas, and of course there is always a pub. This place was destroyed 2000 years ago (after the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius) and the lasting memory it leaves me with is, people then had the same needs, desires and simple pleasures that we all have today. In all that time have we really evolved at all as human beings?