The archaeological excavations of Pompeii have returned the remains of the ancient city of Pompeii, near the hill of Civita, at the gates of modern Pompeii, buried under a blanket of ashes and lapilli during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79, together with Herculaneum, Stabiae and Oplonti.

The findings following the excavations, begun at the behest of Charles III of Bourbon, are one of the best testimonies of Roman life, as well as the best preserved city of that era; most of the finds recovered (in addition to simple furnishings of daily use also frescoes, mosaics and statues), are now preserved in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples and in small quantities in the Antiquarium of Pompeii, currently closed: precisely the considerable amount of finds it was useful to make people understand the uses, customs, eating habits and the art of life of over two millennia ago.

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