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#WorldatFive 🌎: Pompeii’s outgoing director knows further extraordinary frescoes and mosaics are waiting to be discovered and they are tantalisingly close to the surface thetimes.co.uk/article/pompei…
“Wherever you dig at Pompeii, you find,” said Massimo Osanna
This week, restorers continued to delicately dig away at a recently revealed fast food counter decorated with paintings of chickens and ducks and containing an earthenware container that still smelt of wine when it was opened
“Today we have different technologies for excavating to 50 and 200 years ago. And in the future there will be different methods — we need to leave something for future generations,” said Gabriel Zuchtriegel. Read more: thetimes.co.uk/article/pompei…

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