A brief guide to Pompeii, plus 8 fascinating facts about the ancient Roman city

A brief guide to Pompeii, plus 8 fascinating facts about the ancient Roman city

Roman art in Pompeii. 

During the excavations of Pompeii, many well preserved frescos were revealed on the walls of several buildings. 

Pompeii - the Roman city buried by Mt. Vesuvius’ eruption in 79 A.D is a fascinating time capsule which gives us a valuable view of Roman life. 

A fresco is a type of wall(most common) painting, painted with water-based pigments on freshly applied lime plaster.

The pigment is absorbed by the damp plaster, and when dry, reacts with the air causing it to fix the pigment particles into the plaster, ensuring the art to become a permanent part of the wall. When the painting was finished, a fine layer of wax was applied over the work to give it lustre. 

The paintings depicts everything from erotic scenes to religion and myth, daily life of the citizens, and gladiator fights. 

Some of the Pompeii Frescos are preserved at the National Archaeological Museum, in Naples.

After the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, the ancient Roman city of Pompeii was lost for centuries. Today, it is one of the world's most famous – and fascinating – archaeological sites. Here, historian Dominic Sandbrook explores how in AD 79 Vesuvius erupted with devastating results, while Dr Joanne Berry shares eight lesser-known Pompeii facts…

On the afternoon of 24 August 79, the commander of the Roman fleet, Pliny the Elder, was at home in Misenum at the northern end of the Bay of Naples. He was working on some papers after a leisurely lunch when his sister noticed “a cloud of unusual size and appearance”, rising above the peak of Vesuvius. Pliny immediately called for a boat but, even before he had set out, a message arrived from the town at the foot of the mountain where residents were terrified of the looming cloud.

By the time Pliny had crossed the bay to the town of Stabiae, it was obvious that something terrible was afoot. Vesuvius now seemed ablaze, wrote Pliny’s nephew, known as Pliny the Younger, while “ashes were already falling, hotter and thicker as the ships drew near, followed by bits of pumice and blackened stones, charred and cracked by the flames”. With ash filling the sky, the unnatural darkness seemed “blacker and denser than any ordinary night”.

Photos: Pompeii, National Archaeological Museum of Naples.

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