On: Records of Pompeii's survivors have been found

[saaaaaam]

It’s just incredible that there are still records that exist that can be used to tell this story.

[mdp2021 → saaaaaam]

? Organized societies leave records; the eruption happened in year 79, under the Flavians - the Colosseum will be inaugurated the next year.

It is a mark of the so-called "middle ages" or "dark ages" to have periods in which reporting falls...

[lostemptations5 → mdp2021]

And those records are usually destroyed over time by wars, earthquakes, fires, dégradations, just misplacing stuff, etc, etc.

So yeah I'm amazed too -- this stuff survives.

[mdp2021 → lostemptations5]

Backups ;) Much is lost, some is retained...

(The original poster wrote «records that exist that can be used to tell this story»: of all the documentation that can be lost, that produced during the first imperial Rome is probably some of the most secured. We still lost a lot: for example, the culmination of that period is probably under Trajan, and he wrote the Commentarii de bellis Dacicis - lost, contrary to its model, Julius Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico...)

[lostemptations5 → mdp2021]

All true. But these backups must be available publicly-- especially after someone's death (an unfortunate event:/)

Without that -- they become lost.