Pompeii
Subtitle: The Living City
Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Published: January 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780297645603
Subjects: Classical Greek & Roman archaeology; European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Ancient Rome; Ancient - Rome; History - General History; 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.