Pompeii's Secret Cult Discovered
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Pompeii had a secret CULT for 'raving, intoxicated women'
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Frieze was found at the newly-excavated House of Thiasus in Pompeii .
It depicts female followers of Dionysus , the ancient Greek god of wine-making, insanity and ritual madness.
Wearing animal skins, these intoxicated women are eating meat, carrying swords and animal innards and wearing slaughtered goats on their shoulders.
Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year AD 79 , burying the cities of Pompeii, Oplontis , and Stabiae under ashes and rock fragments.
Every single resident died instantly when the southern Italian town was hit by a 500C pyroclastic hot surge.
An administrator and poet called Pliny the younger watched the disaster unfold from a distance.
Letters describing what he saw were found in the 16th century .
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