Thanks for the ping.
Pompeii was a spectacular glimpse into the past for me and taught me, among other things, immense respect for our ancestors.
It seems amazing any of us are here. :’) I don’t think there’s any site (actually, I guess it’s better to say sites, since there were four or five towns buried by the eruption) which was so buried by an eruption and left behind so much of the original, including some of the former inhabitants. Usually human remains were either pulled out by survivors (before or after death) or few in number (like the two or so who died when a building collapsed during an ancient earthquake at Kourion, or the Roman-era sailor and his dog found a few years ago at what used to be the harbor of Pisa).