Terme Stabiane at the Archaeological Areas of Pompeii (Pompeii, Italy)

Pompeii was an ancient Roman city near modern Naples in the Campania region of Italy, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area (e.g. at Boscoreale, Stabiae), was buried under 4 to 13 to 20 feet (6 meters) of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.

Largely preserved under the ash, the excavated city offers a unique snapshot of Roman life, frozen at the moment it was buried and providing an extraordinarily detailed insight into the everyday life of its inhabitants. It was a wealthy town, enjoying many fine public buildings and luxurious private houses with lavish decorations, furnishings and works of art which were the main attractions for the early excavators. Organic remains, including wooden objects and human bodies, were entombed in the ash and decayed away, making natural molds; and excavators used these to make plaster casts, unique and often gruesome figures from the last minutes of the catastrophe. The numerous graffiti carved on the walls and inside rooms provide a wealth of examples of the largely lost Vulgar Latin spoken colloquially, contrasting with the formal language of the classical writers.

Pompeii has a UNESCO World Heritage Site status and is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Italy, with approximately 2.5 million visitors annually.

After many excavation campaigns prior to 1960 that had revealed most of the city but left it in decay, further major excavations were banned and instead they were limited to targeted and necessary areas. In 2018 these led to new discoveries in some previously unexplored areas of the city.

Information from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii

Taken in: Italy / Campania / Pompei / Pompei Scavi (show map)

Taken on: June 8, 2019

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