{"id":160460,"date":"2026-05-23T23:15:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T21:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=160460"},"modified":"2026-05-23T23:15:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T21:15:45","slug":"streets-of-pompeii-show-everyday-life-of-ancient-city","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/streets-of-pompeii-show-everyday-life-of-ancient-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Streets of Pompeii show everyday life of ancient city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The preserved streets of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/pompeii\/\">Pompeii<\/a> are among the most characteristic features of the ancient city destroyed during the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/article\/eruption-of-mount-vesuvius\/\">eruption of Mount Vesuvius<\/a> in 79 CE. Thanks to a layer of volcanic ash, the system of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-art-and-culture\/roman-architecture\/roman-roads\/\">roads<\/a>, buildings and infrastructure survived for almost two thousand years.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Narrow paths between stone walls led to residential homes, workshops, and <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/shops-of-ancient-romans\/\">shops<\/a>. Many streets still feature raised sidewalks and stone elements that made crossing easier, especially during rain and sewage flowing down the middle of the street.<\/p>\n<p>Pompeii was one of the most developed <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/\">cities<\/a> in the Campania region. It had waterworks, <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-art-and-culture\/roman-architecture\/roman-baths\/\">baths<\/a>, taverns, and numerous public buildings. Modern archaeological research is allowing for increasingly accurate reconstruction of the city&#8217;s appearance and the daily lives of its inhabitants just before the catastrophe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":160459,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[108],"class_list":["post-160460","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-other"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/160460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/160460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=160460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}