The European Union has its problems but it's good to see it contributing to world heritage preservation by funding 105M to help preserve Pompeii. I sent a day wandering around Pompeii in 2010, it's well worth a visit and is easily doable as a day trip from Rome if your ever there.

Don't miss the National Archaeological Museum in Naples; most of the best frescoes and statues found in Pompeii and Herculaneum are there, and it also presents many other spectacular artifacts.

This is all I'm holding my breath for: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculaneum_papyri

I suppose you’ve read that delightful summer read, Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, (W.W. Norton, 2011).

My favourite pompeiian hypothesis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suburban_Baths_(Pompeii)#Eroti...

> "These boxes are thought to have functioned as lockers in which bathers put their clothes. It is speculated that the paintings possibly served as way for the bathers to remember the location of their box (in lieu of numbering)"

Now, just where did I leave my tunic and sandals? Ah, yes, here we are, just to the right of the chaliphage.

Can't read it but there are many like it online.[1]

I love the two political candidacy inscriptions they found.

1. https://www.world-archaeology.com/features/new-finds-from-po...