Thomas Talbot lived from 1771 to 1853...obviously a span long past the the year 79 when Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried Pompeii. During Talbot's lifetime Pompeii was an excavation site. The archaeological process had been going on since its' original unearthing in 1599. Names most noted with the excavation of the site during the 18th and 19th century included engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre, Charles of Bourbon (later king of Spain), Karl Weber, military engineer Franscisco la Vega who was then succeeded by his brother, Pietro, in 1804 and then Giuseppe Fiorelli who took charge of the excavations in 1860. Although Talbot did occasionally travel back to Great Britain after staking his claim in Upper Canada it doesn't seem that Pompeii would have been on his travel itinerary. Lucky for us though that Flat Thomas has no restrictions to where he might wander. The Harding Family took Flat Thomas along with them to the ancient city of Pompeii and sent the THS a picture of our slender colonel silhouetted against the walls of the site with Mount Vesuvius towering in the background.
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