why was pompeii discovered
Pompeii as a source. The discovery of Pompeii is of huge importance for our modern-day understanding of the ancient Roman-Italic world-partly because the more public and monumental ruins left behind by Imperial Rome have often been misleading. The excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum ... offer an intact vision of daily life in a Roman society in all its aspects. Their ruination and destruction left crucial questions unanswered, and made it impossible in many ways to gather a satisfactory understanding of the Roman world from them.