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⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀the ⠀ past ⠀ never ⠀ truly ⠀ disappears ⠀ ; ⠀ it ⠀ only ⠀ waits ⠀ to ⠀ be ⠀ uncovered ⠀ .

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Stephanus's Laundry - Pompeii : Parco Archeologico, located in the house of a man named Stephanus, on Via del Abbondante in Pompeii. This is the only building in Pompeii which was originally built as a laundry and fuller’s workshop; the three other establishments of this kind were restructured residential buildings. The fuller’s workshop provided services to numerous clothiers, wool makers and tailors working in the town. According to the electoral slogans painted on the façade (“the united fullers recommend… Stephanus recommends’), the establishment has been attributed to a certain Stephanus. A press used to fold cloth was placed against the left wall of the large entrance hall. Past the entrance hall, we enter an atrium with a flat roof which served as a terrace to hang out the washing. Finer cloth was washed in the large parapeted tank in the middle of the atrium. The peristyle at the rear of atrium has three intercommunicating stone tubs and, alongside these, five basins where cloth was trodden by foot. A number of vessels containing urine were found nearby. Urine was used to treat the cloth and was collected in terra-cotta amphorae which were stored in separate rooms not far from the workshop itself. The kitchen and a lavatory are reached through a door in the left-hand corner of the peristyle. Returning to and crossing Via dell'Abbondanza, we reach the entrance to a shop in which activities linked to those of the laundry were carried out. This is the so-called "Workshop of Verecundus", which was a felting establishment. As with many buildings in this street, only the facade now remains. The plaster on the facade is covered with illustrated advertisements showing the manufacturing phases of the articles that were made in it, among which felt shoes and ready-made clothes which were sold directly to the public. 📷 : Stone laundry bathtub where the smoothing of the fabric, cleaning or wiping was done. #archaeohistories

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In 2011, archeologists in Italy found the buried remains of a couple who have been holding hands for 1,500 years... The skeletal remains of a Roman-era couple reveal the pair has been holding hands for 1,500 years. Italian archaeologists say the man and woman were buried at the same time between 5th-6th Century AD in central-northern Italy. Wearing a bronze ring, the woman is positioned so she appears to be gazing at her male partner. "We believe that they were originally buried with their faces staring into each other. The position of the man's vertebrae suggests that his head rolled after death," Donato Labate, the director of the excavation at the archaeological superintendency of Emilia-Romagna, told Discovery News. The tender discovery was made during ordinary construction work in Modena and was announced this week. Labate explained the dig revealed three layers of scientific interest. The deeper layer, some 23ft below the surface, contained the remains of Roman-era structures, including a calcara where mortar was produced. The ruins belonged to the suburbs of Modena, then called Mutina. "A middle layer, at a depth of about 10 feet, featured 11 burials, while a third stratification on top of the necropolis, revealed seven empty tombs," Labate said. Excavated by archaeologist Licia Diamanti, the skeleton couple belonged to 11 tomb necropolis. According to Labate, the simple fossa (trench) tombs suggest that the people buried there were not particularly rich. "They were possibly the inhabitants of a farm," Labate said. The area was subjected to several floods from nearby river Tiepido - which may have caused the male skeleton's skull to roll away from the female skeleton after burial. The necropolis was covered by alluvial deposits, and on top of them, another seven tombs were built. "These burials were empty. Most likely, they were covered by another flood just after their construction. We think it was a catastrophic flood which occurred in 589, as reported by the historian Paul the Deacon," Labate said. The two skeletons, which are poorly preserved, will be now studied by Giorgio Gruppioni, an anthropologist at the University of Bologna. The research includes establishing the couple's age, their relationship and the possible cause of death. "In antiquity, it is not surprising to learn of spouses or members of a family dying at the same time: whenever epidemics such as the Black Plague ravaged Europe, one member of the family would often die while the family was trying to bury another member," Kristina Killgrove, a biological anthropologist at the University of North Carolina, told Discovery News. In 2007 another skeleton couple, buried between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago, was found at a neolithic site near Mantua, just 25 miles south of Verona, where Shakespeare set the romantic story of Romeo and Juliet. Locked in a tender embrace, they also looked at one another in apparent defiance of time and decay. "The two couples are separated in time by five millennia, and both evoke an uplifting tenderness. I have been involved in many digs, but I've never felt so moved," Labate said. According to Killgrove, positioning of the Modena skeletons, looking at one another and holding hands, indeed suggests they may have been a couple. "Whoever buried these people likely felt that communicating their relationship was just as important in death as it was in life," Killgrove said. © NBC News #archaeohistories

Red Army soldier Yevgeniy Dolmatovasky holding a bust of Adolf Hitler, 1945