Sorrento and Pompeii - through 2000 years in a timewarp


Where the ash has been cleared away, a brilliant record from Roman times has been revealed in this city.
The article starts in the lovely tourist town of Sorrento and then moves on to Pompeii, where the sudden eruption of Mt Vesuvius two millennia ago left this holiday resort of the Romans frozen in time. Most of the town is still unexcavated, but the article takes the visitor through the part that has been restored and describes the Roman aristocracy's villas and the people who lived in them.
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