The eruption of Vesuvius wiped out one of the mos thriving, populous and weathy towns of Campania. Such immense and crushing power of destrcution has been unavailing against man's firm and stubborn determination to wr4est the veil of mystery from off the face of the past. Two centuries of disinterring the lost city reveals the magnitude of nature and humanity's very lifeforce—past and present by Amedeo Maiuri.
