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The Streets of Pompeii

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End of the Excavations at Pompeii
Pompeii Street

Pompeii Street

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It's probably fanciful of me, but I surmise that the street here is relatively unreconstructed. The wall of earth on the left-hand side of the street includes unexcavated portions of Pompeii.

Sources

For more on the archaeology of Pompeii, see Pompeii: Buried in Ashes. Also see the Walking Tour of the House of the Faun.

Beard, Mary. 2008. The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.

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