June
23
/ 2021
Recently, during excavations carried out in Verona, Italy under an abandoned cinema, archaeologists discovered the remains of a second-century Roman building. According to the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of Verona, Rovigo and Vicenza, the remains are evocative of a “mini Pompeii,” as quoted in The Smithsonian. Pompeii itself had lain undiscovered till the 18th century, buried under centuries of volcanic ash, revealing ancient Roman houses in a remarkably well-preserved state. Now this “new” Roman building found beneath the cinema is drawing comparisons to the demise of Pompeii by volcanic fire and the city’s legendary fresco paintings. When Mount Vesuvius had its fateful eruption in 79 AD, it was one of the deadliest ever in European history. To
