a man using a shovel to dig at an excavation site

Pompeii's most recent finds reveal new clues to city's destruction

Frescoes and fast-food joints are just a few of the latest discoveries, but a small piece of graffiti is making scholars rethink the date of Pompeii's ruin.

A worker removes volcanic fragments (lapilli) from the atrium of the House of Orion in Pompeii’s Region V. The decoration being uncovered is characteristic of the so-called First style (200-80 B.C.).
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