Ruins in the Pompeii Archaeological Park. Another Italian tourist site has decided to regulate its hefty traffic - this time the buried city of Pompeii, which is introducing a visitor limit of 20,000.
Pompeii, 23km southeast of Naples, was home to about 13,000 people when it was buried under ash, pumice pebbles and dust as it endured the force of an eruption equivalent to many atomic bombs.
The Archaeological Park of Pompeii is a popular attraction for sightseers visiting the Gulf of Naples ... with several descending from immigrants from the eastern Mediterranean. Studies of ancient ...
Ash and volcanic rock called pumice then covered Pompeii and its residents, preserving scenes of the victims of the city’s destruction like an eerie time capsule. Excavations first began to ...