On: 'Once-in-a-century' discovery reveals luxury of Po...

[YouWhy]

> That thing isn't going to last 3 winters let alone a volcanic eruption.

Could it have been a case of survivorship bias? I.e., perhaps jankier facilities have been built at Pompeii but simply did not make it at all or were not prioritized for excavation?

[4gotunameagain → YouWhy]

People are downvoting you because it is simply due to the different materials and building methodologies of the past.

Things took much longer to build and were much more expensive, but they were very durable as an effect.

There were no plastic hot tubs in Pompeii that burned when the pyroclastic flow swept past.

[shawabawa3 → 4gotunameagain]

There were no plastic ones but there were very probably some wooden ones, or other luxurious wooden items which were destroyed without a trace and we'd never know