A City is Buried
Italy’s Mount Vesuvius erupted in August 79 AD, burying the Roman city of Pompeii under around 20 metres of volcanic ash and pumice and preserving it intact in many places until the city’s excavation over 1600 years later.
Related collections you might be interested in:
- Pompeii in the Sydenham Crystal Palace
- A 3-D rendering of a 19th century replica of the Pompeii court, built in Second Life and enabling interaction with experts and objects as well as offering access to a database of Pompeian frescoes and the Sydenham guidebook.
- Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania
- Classical Roman inscriptions from the area of modern Libya.
- Pleiades
- International knowledge sharing for classical scholars.
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