CAVENDISH SQUARE NEW YORK MYSTERIES IN HISTORY What Happened to Pompeii Solving the Mysteries of the Past Charlie Samuels
Who Found the Buried City The Roman city of Pompeii and its neighbor Herculaneum had been buried and forgotten for centuries Then in the early 1700s their dramatic stories were rediscovered In the early 1700s workers were digging a well near the Bay of Naples in southern Italy Above them rose the great volcano Mount Vesuvius The workers found some old stones As they cleared the earth away they realized The cone-shaped Mount Vesuvius rises behind the ruins of Pompeii X 4
that the stones were statues of women The women wore the kind of clothes that were once worn by the ancient Romans What were they doing in the Naples countryside Naples Pompeii Bay of Naples IN CONTEXT The Bay of Naples During the Roman Empire Naples was an important city in southern Italy Ports on the Bay of Naples received goods from other places in Italy and from around the Mediterranean The region was popular with wealthy Roman visitors who could reach it easily from the capital to the north The ruins at Pompeii give a clear idea of what a Roman town would have looked like X 5
