Pompeii

Name: Pompeii

Pompeii is a partially buried Roman town-city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania. Pompeii was destroyed and completely buried during a long catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius spanning two days in the year AD 79.

The eruption buried Pompeii under 4 to 6 m of ash and pumice, and it was lost for nearly 1700 years before its accidental rediscovery in 1749. Its excavation has provided an extraordinarily detailed insight into the life of a city at the height of the Roman Empire.

Pompeii is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site that is one of the most popular tourist attractions of Italy, with approximately 2,500,000 visitors every year. Pompeii in A.D. 79 was a thriving provincial center with a population of between 10,000 and 20,000 people a few miles from the Bay of Naples. 

The objects buried beneath Pompeii were well-preserved for almost two thousand years. The lack of air and moisture allowed for the objects to remain underground with little to no deterioration, which meant that, once excavated, the site had a wealth of sources and evidence for analysis, giving detail into the lives of the Pompeiians.

Before Pompeii succumbed to the eruptions, it used to be a blossoming township and a progressive commercial port of the Sarno River in Italy. The most notable buildings that have been excavated from the ashes are a Roman basilica and an amphitheatre.

Pompeii was one of the earliest excavated cities in the world, where archeological work started in 1738. Today, Pompeii city is a highly visited tourist place due to its unique architectural designs.

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