11-07-2010, 12:37 PM
Indeed. I have commented here on RAT a number of times on the very rapid rate of deterioration over the years of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and how even in the (relatively) short time I have been visiting the place ( 1975 - present), the sites have been deteriorating and going from perhaps their peak, to graffiti covered, visibly rotting ruins - especially Herculaneum which, when excavated was "as new", but is now in a state of 'crumbling', with much of it closed off to visitors......
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
