How to pronounce “pompeii” in English

He's a baker in Pompeii.

And he was a baker in Pompeii.

If you ever go to Pompeii or Herculaneum, you can find, I think, 30 or 40 of these ovens sitting around preserved,

is the one surviving purpose-built brothel in Pompeii.

And it's the biggest tourist attraction naturally now in Pompeii.

And that I quite often go back to the idea of Pompeii, you know, tremendous Roman town out of which we're squeezing new information all the time,

What's important to me is that one-third of Pompeii is entirely unexcavated.

towns, of which the most famous is Pompeii, and a close second is probably Herculaneum.

This is a Roman mosaic, a famous mosaic that comes from Pompeii.

And you can find these going all the way back to being baker's ovens back to 2,000 years ago in Pompeii.

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In Herculaneum, the town which is very close to Pompeii, and was also destroyed in the eruption of 79, one of the most extraordinary recent discoveries

And this is a Roman couple from-- actually, the first century AD, but around that time-- this is a mural from Pompeii.

Getty ordered this built from his house in London in the 1970s and he based it off of a Roman villa that had been excavated just outside of Pompeii and it had been buried

If we want the best insight we can possibly get into Roman life, then we go to Pompeii and Herculaneum towns

Now, I think we have to be a bit careful about imagining, as people often claim that Pompeii and Herculaneum are towns that were somehow frozen in time.

I always find it rather touching that you see on the walls, painted on the walls of houses in Pompeii-

Now, in some ways these are kind of slightly xenophobic scenes because according to the artists of Pompeii, very weird things happen on the Nile.

how the buildings are done, all kinds of, you know, the seeds that are still left in the environment of Pompeii