Forty years before that, 64 villas were accessible. Each day, Pompeii deteriorates in some way. The main concern should be on preserving what has been discovered already. Instead of uncovering more of the ancient city, while the uncovered parts are deteriorating day by day. The city of Pompeii was lost once, no one wants to lose it again. Pompeii was announced as one of the world’s most endangered sites by the New York-Based World Monuments Funds. “You think, ‘Wow, I can just touch everything here,” …. “ I like the freedom to roam unobserved, but if it’s being destroyed, you must do everything you can to save it. This place needs more security.” (Bloomberg). The amount of security guards has decreased increasingly since 2001. Pompeii must share security with the other victim cities from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. There are four other victim cities, Boscoreale, Stabia, Oplontis and modern day Herculaneum,
Forty years before that, 64 villas were accessible. Each day, Pompeii deteriorates in some way. The main concern should be on preserving what has been discovered already. Instead of uncovering more of the ancient city, while the uncovered parts are deteriorating day by day. The city of Pompeii was lost once, no one wants to lose it again. Pompeii was announced as one of the world’s most endangered sites by the New York-Based World Monuments Funds. “You think, ‘Wow, I can just touch everything here,” …. “ I like the freedom to roam unobserved, but if it’s being destroyed, you must do everything you can to save it. This place needs more security.” (Bloomberg). The amount of security guards has decreased increasingly since 2001. Pompeii must share security with the other victim cities from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. There are four other victim cities, Boscoreale, Stabia, Oplontis and modern day Herculaneum,