The excavation of Pompeii begins

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Category
Science
Place
Italy
Date
1748
Reference
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Excavation was ordered by the Bourbon King of Naples ten years after a peasant discovered the ruins while digging for a well. [Furtado: 1001 Days]

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Category
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-3800
2020
Transcultural