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[ConorMacNessa]

Absolutely wonderful! What will they do the next time Vesuvius has a hiccup?

To me, this is on a par with pouring millions of dollars into beach restoration on the Atlantic Coast of the U.S.

That site has been open for decades and we have gleaned much knowledge from it. We should continue to glean such knowledge while we can. But to pump money into it to preserve it from weather?

Is it not due to the vagaries of weather, or perhaps more accurately, the natural forces of geology, that it was "preserved" to us in the first place?



"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

[Explorer89]

Pompeii is astonishingly large. I know it was a city, but I had somehow envisioned more of a town-sized place, a few blocks of excavation, like you can find at Herculaneum. Pompeii was vast.