Building Bridges of Time, Places, and People: Volume II: Tombs, Temples & Cities of Egypt, Israel, Greece & Italy

“By a quirk of fate,” says Darcie Conner Johnston,

the eruption [of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD] caught Pompeii at a time of great spiritual change. As a gateway south and east to Greece and Egypt and the Eurasian landmass beyond, the city was heir to a panoply of faiths. A host of foreign gods had begun to usurp the positions of the venerable Olympian deities and the imperial Roman pantheon. Christians were likely to have been here as well, though the evidence of their presence...