The BBC is posting
a short video about the dazzling new Virtual Museum of Archaelogy (MAV) which opened this summer, based on the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum.
While Vesuvius has gone back to sleep, the main threat to
Herculaneum now that much of it has been excavated, could be from
visitors plodding around the ruins.
If these visitors can be persuaded to go to the virtual museum
rather than trek around around the ruins then it might go some way
towards preserving those crumbling stones.
“This is also the best way to make these towns live in the
future, because otherwise I think they will be destroyed again and not
by Vesuvius, but by people,” says archaeologist Caterina Cozzalino.
