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  2. Secret Museum, Naples - Wikipedia

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    Entrance to the Gabinetto Segreto. The Secret Museum or Secret Cabinet (Italian: Gabinetto Segreto) in Naples is the collection of 1st-century Roman erotic art found in Pompeii and Herculaneum, now held in separate galleries at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, the former Museo Borbonico.

  3. Erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum - Wikipedia

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    Erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum has been both exhibited as art and censored as pornography. The Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum around the bay of Naples were destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD , thereby preserving their buildings and artefacts until extensive archaeological excavations began in the 18th century.

  4. National Archaeological Museum, Naples - Wikipedia

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    The Secret Cabinet (Gabinetto Segreto) (Gabbinete) or Secret Room is the name the Bourbon Monarchy gave the private rooms in which they held their fairly extensive collection of erotic or sexual items, mostly deriving from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

  5. Pompeii: Stunning new paintings unearthed at ancient ... - AOL

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    Fascinating artworks have been uncovered in a new excavation at Pompeii, the ancient Roman city doomed and buried by Mount Vesuvius’s deadly eruption in AD79.. The most impressive discovery is ...

  6. Pompeii - Wikipedia

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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.

  7. Travel: Remarkable artifacts reveal Pompeii history in ... - AOL

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    In conjunction with the Pompeii exhibit, the museum center’s Omnimax theater will also be showing the documentary "Volcanoes: The Fires of Creation," which includes a segment filmed at modern ...

  8. List of sex museums - Wikipedia

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    While not specifically a sex museum, the National Archaeological Museum in Naples opened its extensive collection of historic erotic art in its Secret Cabinet to the public in 2000. Most of the exhibits are from Greek and Roman times, and many were recovered from nearby Pompeii. [23]

  9. Pompeii archaeologists uncover ancient tiny house with ...

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    The home was buried beneath the ash and debris that wiped out Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. but elaborate frescoes painted onto its interior walls have remained largely intact.

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