Mosaic portrait of a matron, Pompeii
Exhibition Poster
On the morning of August 24, A.D. 79, the volcano Vesuvius woke in fury and rained destruction upon a most beautiful region along the Bay of Naples. Whole peoples and cities vanished in the disaster, and it seemed that they would be forgotten forever, except for a few letters written by survivors who observed from a distance. But in 1748, peasants digging in the region came upon ruins of the city. Not, however, until 1860, was a systematic effort made to rediscover the ancient city and the people who perished so tragically. Thanks to the diligence of dedicated archaeologists, we now can experience the sense of life that pulsed through the city before that day.
Pompeii, AD 79 is a humanities exhibit from Texas Humanities Resource Center, a division of Texas Council for the Humanities. Organized in collaboration with the Dallas Museum of Art, this exhibit is based on the unique exhibition of Pompeiian artifacts that toured the United States upon the 1900th anniversary of the cataclysmic eruption of Vesuvius. Its presentation is made possible by grants from the Texas Council for the Humanities, state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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