Pompeii Research Paper

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Have you ever thought about The Lost City of Pompeii? Well, lucky for you, I did some research on the place and gathered some pretty interesting facts and theories about Pompeii. It is located in Italy's Campania Region, near the coast of the Bay of Naples. The city of Pompeii was completely demolished by a volcano by the name of “Mount Vesuvius” in 79 A.D. Therefore, it destroyed almost the entire city.

But this gives the archaeologists a chance to look at what's left and draw conclusions about what the people of Pompeii lived like on the daily. There are still artifacts in Pompeii that archaeologists don't know about but for now, they are focusing on the things that are approachable in Pompeii at the time.

One of the many

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