A new exhibition of items from Pompeii and Herculaneum has opened at the British Museum in London. The two cities, on the Bay of Naples in southern Italy, were buried in just 24 hours by a volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The cities were naturally preserved until they were rediscovered by archaeologists nearly 1,700 years later. <br /><br />...<br />http://www.euronews.net/
