Article: Pompeii's mysteries explored at Toledo museum.

Byline: Tahree Lane

Oct. 19--We're fascinated with the Italian city that was frozen in time almost 2,000 years ago. It's not unlike the lurid pleasure of imagining the lost city of Atlantis or the doomed Titanic, or watching a sci-fi thriller in which a family driving down a deserted highway is abducted by aliens. Ever since a farmer discovered traces of Pompeii in the 1750s, it has attracted the curious, including the German poet Goethe, Mark Twain, and even Toledo Museum of Art founders Florence and Edward Libbey. "From the 18th century on, for people who went on the Grand Tour of Europe, Naples and Pompeii were always on that tour," said Carolyn ...

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