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Pompeii
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Nothing piques human curiosity quite like a mass catastrophe and few can beat the ru-
ins of Pompeii (
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), a once-thriving Roman town frozen for all-time in its
2000-year-old death throes. Wander Roman streets, the grassy, column-lined forum, the
city brothel, the 5000-seat theatre and the frescoed Villa dei Misteri and ponder Pliny the
Younger's terrifying account of the tragedy: 'Darkness came on again, again ashes, thick
and heavy. We got up repeatedly to shake these off; otherwise we would have been buried
and crushed by the weight'.
Street in Pompeii
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