GEOGRAPHICAL SETTING
This region of southern Italy includes the Bay of Naples and Capri.
What is Campania?
This soil type made Campania extremely fertile for agriculture.
What is volcanic soil?
This Egyptian goddess was worshipped in Pompeii.
Who is Isis?
This architectural feature is a columned courtyard.
What is a peristyle?
This site has generally been better preserved due to being buried by pyroclastic flows.
What is Herculaneum?
This volcano dominates the region and erupted in AD 79.
What is Mount Vesuvius?
Romans grew vineyards, olives and grains due to this type of climate.
What is a Mediterranean climate?
The main centre of Isis worship in Pompeii.
What is the Temple of Isis?
These three column styles were borrowed from Greece.
What are Doric, Ionic and Corinthian?
This technique allowed archaeologists to study skeletons inside plaster casts without destroying them.
What are CT Scans?
Pompeii was built on this type of landform created by earlier lava flows.
What is a volcanic plateau?
This soil type made Campania extremely fertile for agriculture.
What is volcanic soil?
Egyptian-style art often depicted scenes from this river.
What is the Nile?
Many Pompeian artworks were copies of these originals.
What are Greek originals?
This international organisation granted World Heritage status to Pompeii and Herculaneum in 1997.
What is UNESCO?
This bay provided safe anchorages and supported trade and fishing industries.
What is the Bay of Naples?
Campania’s crop yield was how many times higher than the Italian average?
What is six times higher?
This animal motif appeared in statues, furniture and braziers.
What is a sphinx?
This famous mosaic shows Alexander the Great in battle.
What is the Alexander Mosaic?
This major Italian-led project (begun in 2013) aimed to stabilise structures and prevent collapse at Pompeii.
What is the Great Pompeii Project?
This river, known as the Sarnus to the Romans, flowed past Pompeii.
What is the Sarno River?
Sheep and goats provided this important natural resource.
What is wool?
Egyptian cults appealed to Romans partly because they offered this belief.
What is an afterlife?
Greek theatre design influenced this feature of Pompeian theatres.
What is being built into a hillside?
One major ethical concern with continued excavation is that it can cause this irreversible problem.
What is increased deterioration / loss of original material?