Life and death Pompeii and Herculaneum
- Lefteris Pitarakis
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Jewellery found in the ruins of a house in Pompeii are displayed, backdropped by the casts of a family of two adults and two children who died together in the house in Pompeii, are seen during a photo call for the upcoming exhibition entitled 'Life and death Pompeii and Herculaneum', at the British Museum in central London, Tuesday, March 26, 2013. The casts were made by filling plaster in the void left by their bodies. The exhibition about the two Roman cities, buried by a catastrophic volcanic eruption of Mount Vezuvius in 79 AD, will run at the museum from March 28 to Sept. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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'Life and death Pompeii and Herculaneum', an exhibit at the British Museum in central London…
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