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 line one wall, vases and odd capitals (upper parts of columns) take up floor space, and plaster casts of body shapes lie on trestle tables. Archaeology does not merely consist of digging up and displaying material. A considerable amount of sorting, examining, and comparing on site is essential.', copy:'(Image © The Art Archive/Dagli Orti)'});)
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, daughter of the Persian ruler Darius III, in 324 <small>BC</small>. The couple are apparently dressed as Ares and Aphrodite (divinities of war and love, respectively), which is no doubt appropriate to the way they thought of themselves, but mythologically inept – as Pompeiians would have known.', copy:'(Image © The Art Archive/Archaeological Museum Naples/Dagli Orti)'});)
, although the animal in question does not look particularly ferocious and is on a strong lead.', copy:'(Image © The Art Archive/Archaeological Museum Naples/Dagli Orti)'});)
 of a building in Pompeii, Italy, around <small>AD</small> 50–79.', copy:'(Image © The Art Archive/Archaeological Museum Naples/Dagli Orti)'});)
. The painting shows a girl with a stylus and tablet.', copy:'(Image © The Art Archive/Archaeological Museum Naples/Dagli Orti)'});)
 in the presence of Pan\'s animals, the goats, while a priestess enacts terror, thus explaining the derivation of the English word ‘panic’.', copy:'(Image © The Art Archive/Villa of the Mysteries Pompeii/Dagli Orti)'});)
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Ancient city in Italy, near the volcano Vesuvius, 21 km/13 mi southeast of Naples.
In AD 63 an earthquake destroyed much of the city, which had been a Roman port and pleasure resort; it was completely buried beneath volcanic ash when Vesuvius, a composite – and therefore explosive – volcano erupted in AD 79. Over 2,000 people were killed. Pompeii was rediscovered in 1748 and the systematic excavation begun in 1763 still continues.
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