Pompeii

The history

Buried by Vesuvius in AD 79 and dug out from the 1700s onward — streets, shops, graffiti and bodies preserved exactly as the ash left them.

In brief

Pompeii 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, it was buried under 4 to 6 m of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Then & now

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Where it is