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History of Archaeology - Pompeii
Year: 2007
The most famous archaeological site in the world is not hard to name. If there has ever been a site as well preserved, as evocative, as memorable as that of Pompeii, the luxurious resort for the Roman Empire, buried under the ash and lava erupted by Mount Vesuvius on August 24, 79 AD.
But probably of most fascination to those of us today are the details of the private homes, the eerie negative images of people caught in the eruption, the utter humanness of the tragedy seen at Pompeii.
Pompeii's Archaeological Excavations
Of interest to archaeologists is the fact that Pompeii was among the earliest of archaeological excavations, tunneled into by the Bourbon rulers of Naples and Palermo first beginning 1738. Full scale excavations were begun at Pompeii in 1748. Archaeologists associated with Pompeii and Herculaneum include Karl Weber, Johann-Joachim Wincklemann, and Guiseppe Fiorelli; a team was sent there by the Emperor Napoleon as well.
