Digital Archaeology Walks Viewers Through Pompeii

It is nearly impossible to imagine that day in 79 AD when the eruption of Mount Vesuvius destroyed the Roman city of Pompeii.  The volcano buried the city and thousands of its inhabitants under a four-to-six-meter blanket of embalming ash that preserved Pompeii until its rediscovery in the late 1500s. Pompeii is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site and research is still being conducted on this uniquely preserved vision of life during the Roman age of the Emperors. Researchers at...

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