The ash-preserved ruins of Pompeii, more than any other source, have provided historians with a window into just what life in that time and place was like. Baths, houses, tools and other possessions (including plenty of wine bottles), frescoes, graffiti, an ampitheater, an aqueduct, the “ Villa of the Mysteries“: Pompeii has it all, as far as the stuff of first-century Roman life goes. Buried and thus frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, the ancient Roman town of 11,000 has provided an object of great historical interest ever since its rediscovery in 1599. A good disaster story never fails to fascinate - and, given that it actually happened, the story of Pompeii especially so.
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