5Pompeii and the National Archaeological Museum of Naples

Pompeii is a treasury of knowledge about ancient Rome, mainly due to beautifully preserved artefacts.

Pompeii was a wealthy city with numerous public buildings, sports arenas, theatres and temples. The city with its 64 hectares and 20,000 people was a completely average social centre of the Roman Empire in the 1st century CE. This fact makes it an important city for historians and archaeologists. To a large extent, ruins, objects and bodies reveal the Romans’ lifestyle of that time. An extremely valuable source of knowledge for scientists are preserved mosaics. A large part of them was transferred to the National Archaeological Museum in Naples to prevent damage. The most important of them is a work depicting Alexander of Macedon during the Battle of Issos (333 BCE), in which Macedonians, commanded by Alexander with the Persian army, led by Darius III.

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