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Pompeii (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Pompeii (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Series: Archaeological Histories
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This second edition of Alison E. Cooley's accessible introduction
to Pompeii takes into account the major new theories and
discoveries that have emerged since the first edition was published
20 years ago. Italy's third most popular tourist destination,
Pompeii attracts millions of visitors each year, and images of the
town are familiar all around the world. However, even today our
picture of the site is being impacted by new archaeological
discoveries. This book focuses particularly on the date of the
eruption, the natural environment of Pompeii, the recovery of
skeletal remains and plaster casts, and Pompeii in the popular
imagination. In addition, three new chapters look at the
popularization of Pompeii, archaeological reconstruction of the
Roman town, and how we know what we know about the people who lived
there. The technological advances of the 20th and 21st centuries
have transformed our understanding of the urban environment of
Pompeii, raising new questions even as they dig ever deeper into
the surviving material evidence. This volume offers a succinct and
insightful exploration of the impact of these scientific and
archaeological innovations, as well as that of contemporary
politics, upon interpretations of Pompeii over the last 250 years,
including the ways in which advances in volcanology have
transformed our picture of its last moments.
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