Forum, Pompeii, Italy, late 19th or early 20th century. [Getty Images]

Forum, Pompeii, Italy, late 19th or early 20th century. Pompeii is a ruined and partially buried Roman town-city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. Along with Herculaneum, its sister city, Pompeii was destroyed, and completely buried, during a long catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius spanning two days in 79 AD. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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