Pompeii rebirth – in pictures
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Tourists walk past a preserved thermopolium, a commercial establishment where it was possible to purchase ready-to-eat food, at the Pompeii archaeological site, southern Italy. All photos: AP -
A statue of a Faunus. In a few horrible hours, Pompeii went from being a vibrant city to a dead one, smothered by a furious volcanic eruption in 79AD. -
The Mount Vesuvius volcano towers over the remains of the ancient town of Pompeii. -
Excavations are carried out inside the 'House of the Library' at Pompeii. -
A restorer performs deep consolidation of an unearthed wall. -
In this century, Pompeii appeared alarmingly on the precipice of a second death, assailed by decades of neglect, mismanagement and inadequate systematic maintenance of the heavily visited ruins. -
Tourists walk inside the Pompeii site. -
A fresco inside the kitchen of a house. -
A plastic bag contains tiles from a floor mosaic inside the House of the Library. -
A black and white floor mosaic shows the image of a guard dog and a script in Latin, which says 'Watch the dog'. -
The 'Leda and the swan' fresco. -
Another fresco, this one depicting a poet. -
Visitors look at the casts of some of the victims of the Vesuvius eruption. -
A damaged mosaic. -
'Leda and the swan' is seen on a wall of a ruined house. -
A view of the Pompeii site through an archway.
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