Pompeii—thelife of its people, its conflicts and disasters, and the changing fortunes of ahouse at the center of it all. Beginning in the sixth century bce, a simplehut becomes a farmhouse, and gradually the farmhouse is swallowed upby the expanding new city of Pompeii. The house grows as the city andits inhabitants prosper. But finally it also suffers the devastating effects ofthe natural disaster that swallowed up the city—the eruption of MountVesuvius. This is the story of the growth and destruction of a house, a city,and an empire. Further, it is a tale of discovery and revelation that tracksthe extraordinary archaeological work involved in unearthing andinterpreting Pompeii's remains.

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