Title

Forum, Pompeii, Italy, late 19th or early 20th century. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Forum, Pompeii, Italy, late 19th or early 20th century. Pompeii is a ruined and partially buried Roman town-city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. Along with Herculaneum, its sister city, Pompeii was destroyed, and completely buried, during a long catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius spanning two days in 79 AD.

Date

1875

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C60_342

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (4,3Mb) / 15,7in x 12,4in / 4713 x 3709 (300dpi)

Keywords

Europe city Italy Italian building architecture country Rome continent geography European color volcano ruins archaeology ruin Pompeii Campania column pillar pillars Roman forum location disaster century archaeological catastrophe concept ruined archaeological site archeology B&W Colour 19th century destroyed black & white black and white B W white and black 20th century Ancient Rome Mount Vesuvius nineteenth century Vesuvius Ancient city The Print Collector 1st century geographical feature TGN photograph landscape Unknown 1st century AD 19th-century