ocr: even the last exhalation of men and women who lived and died in that ancient city. Pompeii was SO utterly wiped out that even its site was lost. But in the last two centuries the city has in a sense been reborn. In - 1748 canal diggers came on the buried houses, and the excavation has continued almost without interruption ever since. Generations of archaeologists and laborers, Italian and foreign, have devoted their entire lifetimes to uncovering or restoring the ruins ofl Pompeii. The two-century excavation of Pompeii is the longest ever made of any city ofthe ancient world. In part the lure ...
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