The once-thriving city of Pompeii, near Naples, and its surroundings were destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D.

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Long buried under volcanic ash, Pompeii’s frescoes had resisted complete restoration for nearly two millennia; their thousands of fractured pieces scattered and intermingled like a chaotic jigsaw with ...