Музей апокалипсиса: Что Помпеи рассказывают об истории человечества

Pochti ezhednevno v svoeĭ rabote Gabriėlʹ T͡Sukhtrigelʹ, direktor arkheologicheskogo parka v Pompei͡akh, stalkivaetsi͡a so sledami katastrofy, unichtozhivsheĭ ėtot gorod. Neubrannye posteli, ostavlennai͡a posuda, tela zhertv izverzhenii͡a vulkana, zastyvshie v peple. I v to zhe vremi͡a potri͡asai͡ushchie proizvedenii͡a iskusstva, takie kak statui͡a spi͡ashchego malʹchika-rybaka, kotoryĭ nakrylsi͡a plashchom i svernulsi͡a kalachikom, chtoby ne zamerznutʹ, kak delai͡ut deti i v nashi dni. . . Vse ėto zastavilo T͡Sukhtrigeli͡a zadumatʹsi͡a o tom, chem mozhet bytʹ interesna nam Antichnostʹ segodni͡a, chto ona rasskazyvaet nam o nas samikh i chto delaet vazhnym arkheologicheskie otkrytii͡a. V svoeĭ knige on pokazyvaet, chto proshloe ne ukhodit bezvozvratno: govori͡a o nem i otkryvai͡a ego, my okazyvaemsi͡a v samoĭ gushche sobytiĭ, i t͡selʹ vossozdanii͡a ėtogo ushedshego mira v tom, chtoby rasshiritʹ i pereosmyslitʹ nash sobstvennyĭ mir.

Almost daily in his work, Gabriel Zuchtrigel, director of the archaeological park in Pompeii, comes across traces of the catastrophe that destroyed this city. Unmade beds, abandoned dishes, the bodies of victims of the volcanic eruption, frozen in ashes. And at the same time, stunning works of art, such as the statue of a sleeping fisherman boy who covered himself with a cloak and curled up to keep warm, as children do these days. . . All this made Zuchtriegel think about how Antiquity can be interesting to us today, what it tells us about ourselves and what makes archaeological discoveries important. In his book, he shows that the past does not go away irrevocably: talking about it and discovering it, we find ourselves in the thick of events, and the purpose of recreating this bygone world is to expand and rethink our own world.