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Pompeii (/ p ɒ m ˈ p eɪ (i)/ ⓘ pom-PAY(-ee), Latin: [pɔmˈpei̯.iː]) was a city in what is now the municipality of Pompei, near Naples, in the Campania region of Italy.Along with Herculaneum, Stabiae, and many surrounding villas, the city was buried under 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft) of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Pompeii suffers from pollution, the worst forms of damage are of human origin. — Henri de Saint-Blanquat, Science et Avenir No. 469, March 1986 The ancient city was included in the 1996 World Monuments Watch by the World Monuments Fund , and again in 1998 and in 2000 .
An archaeologist works on the recently discovered remains of a victim in the archaeological site of the ancient city of Pompeii, which was destroyed in AD 79 by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, in ...
Floor plan of the House of the Greek Epigrams Pompeii (V 1,18) Entering the home using its front entrance (18), a visitor could look across a wide atrium with impluvium slightly offset to the right, through a curtained tablinum to the red and white-columned peristyle where a mural on the rear wall depicted a bull attacked by a tiger.
The Mount Vesuvius eruption of 79 A.D. blanketed Pompeii in destruction. To preserve the historical nature of the event and help tell the stories of the residents of the city, some of the victims ...
Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii shows that people found holding one another beneath the volcanic ash weren’t related in the ways we think. DNA analysis upends long-held assumptions about ...
The cult of Isis is thought to have arrived in Pompeii around 100 BCE; the existing temple was built following the destruction of its predecessor in the earthquake of 62 CE. [7] Though Isis' origins were in Ancient Egypt, her cult spread widely throughout the Greco-Roman world.
The discovery of two skeletons buried beneath a collapsed wall in the Pompeii archaeological site point to deaths by powerful earthquakes that accompanied the devastating eruption of Mount ...