Geographical setting and natural features of Campania
Who is Bacchus?
The most cited witness account of the eruption.
Who is Pliny the Younger?
Fiorelli invented this to preserve the shapes left behind in volcanic ash in Pompeii.
What is plaster casting?
The name of the famous painting depicting the eruption of Pompeii.
What is "The Last Day of Pompeii"?
What is fortune?
The length of the eruption.
What is 2 days?
Fiorelli pioneered this method of study on the site of Pompeii.
What is stratigraphy?
This museum has an exhibit on the Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum.
What is the British Museum?
The name of the river that feeds Pompeii.
What is the Sarno River?
The four settlements buried by the eruption of Vesuvius.
What is Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis and Stabiae?
This archaeologist helped discover many commerical enterprises.
Who is Vittorio Spinazzola?
A modern film depicting the eruption.
What is "The Last Days of Pompeii" (1935, 1959, 1984), "Pompeii" (2014), "Pompeii: The Last Days" (2003)?
Strabo states the area arount Mount Vesuvius is suited for this.
What is "to the vine"?
This is being contested about the eruption.
What is the date? OR How did people die?
This archaeologist pioneered excavations below the destruction level.
Who is Amedeo Maiuri?
An artist who drew a modern depiction of Pompeii/Herculaneum.
Who is Paul Alfred de Curzon, William Hamilton, Jacob Philipp Hackert OR Sir Edward John Poynter?
What is the House of the Centenary?
What is 1.8m to 60cm at Pompeii, and 23m at Herculaneum?
This Archaeologist, who was the director of excavations in 1964, emphasised the restoration of buildings already uncovered.
Who is Alfonso De Franciscis?
Modern writers on Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Who is Theophile Gautier, Stendhal, Francois Mazoir, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, OR Robert Harris?