Pompei was an ancient city located in what is now the comune of Pompei near Naples in the Campania region of Italy. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area, was buried under 4 to 6 m of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The excavations allow us to visit the good living room of the temples, the public buildings, the rich patrician villas, but also to walk among the ancient shops, the social housing, the `taverns` and the lupanari, where the commoner unravelled his life
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