ocr: largest houses. After 1860 the new kingdom ofl Italy assigned direction of the excavation to Giuseppe Fiorelli, and he instituted a systematic uncovering of the whole city- street by street and building by building. But the true rebirth of Pompeii did not begin until early in this century, when, with the discovery of the beautiful House of the Vetti, it was decided not to remove the city's treasures but to keep the decorations on the site and restore the houses as close as possible to their original condition. Since World War II, the work has been helped immensely by funds made available by th ...
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