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Buried City: Unearthing the Real Pompeii
Buried City: Unearthing the Real Pompeii | Gabriel Zuchtriegel
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The director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park offers a vivid view of daily life in the lost city, shares the latest discoveries, and reflects on preserving heritage. In The Buried City, Gabriel Zuchtriegel takes us on a behind-the-scenes tour of Pompeii and reveals new archaeological finds that are being unearthed at the site's biggest dig in a generation. As director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park, Zuchtriegel presents a uniquely intimate perspective on this city that was tragically destroyed and frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. Among the ruins, we find unmade beds, dishes left drying, and bodies of victims encased in ash, but Zuchtriegel shows that we've only begun to understand this fascinating place, as a third of the site remains unexcavated. Zuchtriegel leads us into the heart of the city, reconstructing Pompeii as it would have been, showing us who lived there, what mattered to them, and what happened in their final hours. The Buried City reveals the latest discoveries unearthed at Pompeii--including a banquet hall with murals of Greek gods, a fresco of what appears to be a pizza, and the remains of individuals crushed by debris--all buried for almost two thousand years. Zuchtriegel offers a vivid portrait of this World Heritage site as a vibrant and diverse city, connecting us to a past that is much closer than we think and inviting us to reflect on our role as keepers of the site and its history.
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shanaqui
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The blurb of this book claims it talks about new discoveries, and it does a bit, but mostly it's a somewhat rambling look at what drives the author, what he loves about Pompeii and working as the director of Pompeii, how he got there...

Which is all quite interesting, if sometimes prone to pages-long digressions, and his interest in the everyday (not just the beautiful murals) is vital and I think will continue to have good results in Pompeii.

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shanaqui

This one feels a bit... scattered? The topic jumps around quite a bit, and though it does eventually re-rail, sometimes I feel a bit lost as to where things are going.

Also although the blurb on the inside of the dust cover says it's about recent discoveries, so far it doesn't seem to be?