Recent excavations at the house of Elle and Frisso—a Pompeii home named after a mythological fresco in one of its rooms—have unearthed the buildings main interior spaces. Archaeologists also uncovered heart wrenching details of the inhabitants desperate attempts to shield themselves from the eruption, a discovery detailed in the E Journal of Pompeiis Excavations. Excavating and visiting Pompeii means coming face to face with the beauty of art but also with the precariousness of our lives,...

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