Pompeii
Subtitle: The Living City
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: October 3, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780312355852
Subjects: Ancient - Rome; History / Ancient / Rome; History; History - General History; Antiquities; Art, Roman; Excavations (Archaeology); Italy; Naples Region (Italy); Pompeii (Extinct city); History: World
First sentence: In July 1738, workmen digging the foundations of a summer palace for Charles of Bourbon, the King of Naples, discovered the first hard evidence of the cities that had been buried by Vesuvius in AD 79.