New Digging at Pompeii Reveals How the Middle Class Lived in 79 AD

Waxed tablets

Seven wax tablets tied together and covered in cinerite. Photo: Courtesy of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii

A cast of seven wax tablets bound together with cord. It doesn’t look quite like that now, because the objects were covered in ash that hardened into cinerite, like most of Pompeii was.

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