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The Buried City: The Revelatory New History from the Director of Pompeii - a Sunday Times Bestseller
Gabriel Zuchtriegel
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**THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF POMPEII**
'The best book on Pompeii I've ever read' STEPHEN FRY
'An essential read for anyone interested in this extraordinary place' TELEGRAPH
'Brilliant' TOM HOLLAND
A vast area of Pompeii is being excavated for the first time, revealing astonishing insights into how people really lived. In this revelatory new history, Director of Pompeii Gabriel Zuchtriegel shares the untold stories that are at last emerging.
Pompeii is a world frozen in time. There are unmade beds, dishes left drying, tools abandoned by workmen, bodies embracing with love and fear. And alongside the remnants of everyday life, there are captivating works of art: lifelike portraits, exquisite frescos and mosaics, and the extraordinary sculpture of a sleeping boy, curled up under a blanket that's too small.
The Buried City reconstructs the catastrophe that destroyed Pompeii on 24 August 79 CE, but it also offers a behind-the-scenes tour of the city as it was before: who lived here, what mattered to them, and what happened in their final hours. It offers us a vivid sense of Pompeii's continuing relevance, and proves that ancient history is much closer to us than we think.
'A fascinating new book about what we are still learning about this most haunting of all lost cities... deeply moving' MAIL ON SUNDAY
'Makes the familiar magical' DAN SNOW
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'This is not just the best book on Pompeii I've ever read - it's the best book on the glorious realities of archaeology itself. Gabriel Zuchtriegel will surely inspire a whole new generation in the field with his blend of knowledge, experience and boundless passion. For this reader ... well, it has left me panting to revisit Pompeii with the new, excited eyes that this magnificent book has given me.'Gabriel Zuchtriegel's book is as fabulous as it is unusual - Suddeutsche ZeitungA brilliant book. A learned guide to life in Pompeii... deftly weaving the ancient with the modern. Fascinating, affable and constantly illuminating. - A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the ForumArchaeology has never been told so vividly - Die Zeit
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