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BLAST FROM ROMAN PAST
Burton Mail
|July 29, 2025
THE city of Pompeii was so well preserved beneath the volcanic ash of Vesuvius that it offers an unparalleled glimpse of what day to day life would have been like for the citizens of this ancient Roman city.
Now Dan Snow and historian Dr Kate Lister pay a visit to the UNESCO World Heritage site located southeast of Naples, before the tourists arrive, to get a sense of how the locals would have lived.
This story is from the July 29, 2025 edition of Burton Mail.
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