Thanks to the Melbourne Museum, you can relive the destruction of Pompeii from your smart phone or computer. Buried and thus frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, the ancient Roman town of 11,000 has provided an object of great historical interest ever since its rediscovery in 1599. Baths, houses, tools and other possessions (including plenty of wine bottles), frescoes, graffiti, an amphitheater, an aqueduct, the Villa of the Mysteries: Pompeii has it all, as far as the stuff of first-century Roman life goes.
