At least ten unexploded bombs are hidden in the ruins of Pompeii

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It’s seen worse…

Very interesting story. The headline feels a bit click-baity to me though. It’s not like the bombs were hidden on purpose.

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Maybe it’s a good time for a diplomatic visit from the inner circle of the White House. Unguided tour, anyone?

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Good place for a very intense final game of hide and seek.

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A medical professional should look that over.

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It is estimated that there are 110 million land mines in the ground right now.

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Pink Floyd played there to no audience (intentionally) in the 70s. Careful With That Unexploded Bomb, Eugene!

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This… is LONDON!

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How much more vivid pornographic art will be found in the search for bombs? Will wankers go out with a bang?

No Bombpeii jokes yet?

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Unfortunately, UXB is not an uncommon occupational hazard for archaeologists. When I worked at Gettysburg, a construction worker brought an item they had found to the park archaeologist’s office. It was a 2-foot long terracotta bomb with metal fins and a wooden percussion pin in the nose. We naturally thought it was a model because who ever heard of a ceramic bomb? It was definitely not Civil war munitions.

So I started to clean it to see what we had. As soon as I removed the wooden peg from the nose, I smelled gunpowder. I carefully set it in a bucket of water and called the bomb squad. It was a tracer bomb filled with phosphorus (!!) from when they trained pilots at Gettysburg during WWI. They made it mostly ceramic to save metal.

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I was thinking “Palomares” instead of Pompeii, and that would be worse.

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