Pompeii, and in extention Herculaneum, always fascinate me. The eruption made it so much better preserved that it's really a look in to the past. Amazing.
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I always liked herculaneum more than pompeii, felt like a real impression of the past. Pompeii always felt more meddled with.
"The most powerful thing from these excavations is that stark contrast between the lives of the slaves and the very, very rich. And here we see it," says Dr Sophie Hay.
Thank goodness things aren't like that today!
Incredible find. It's amazing how much there is still to be discovered in Pompeii.