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Director Robert Polanksi and writer Robert Harris have agreed to create a movie based on the novel Pompeii. The cost is projected to be $197 million. Harris has 8 weeks to write the screenplay and Polanski is scheduled to film the epic this summer.

Pompeii, by Robert Harris, is a retelling of the volcanic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius from the perspective of an ancient aqueduct engineer.
It is a carefully researched modern thriller set in August A.D. 79 in Campania. Robert Harris tells the story of corruption, politics, love, Roman superstition, slavery, and engineering, all set against the power of Mt. Vesuvius.

Read my review of Pompeii.

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Pompeiian Houses
A database of Pompeiian houses is now available online. Among the features of the site are lists of rooms and houses in which they are included, names in Italian, Greek, or Latin of household and other items, and photographs of the rooms.

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Vesuvius - Mt. Vesuvius

Thanks to the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, archaeologists have been able to learn much about daily life in first century Rome. Located near the Bay of Naples in Campania, Pliny the Elder described the volcano before he himself was killed by it.

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