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   The better part of two millennia after its entombment in ash and pumice   
   by Mount Vesuvius, Pompeii ranks as one of Italy's most popular tourist   
   attractions. Ancient-history buffs who visit its well-preserved ruins   
   today will find plenty to occupy their time and attention, but they   
   won't be able to see as much as they used to: less than a third of the   
   Pompeii accessible to tourists fifty years ago remains so today. But   
   thanks to technology, entirely new views of Pompeii have also opened   
   up. Camera drones, which now seem to get lighter, more agile, and   
   clearer-sighted every day, provide a perspective on Pompeii that no   
   visitor has ever enjoyed before, regardless of their level of access.   
      
   The video at the top of the post takes a quick flight down one of   
   Pompeii's streets, which at first looks like nothing more than a   
   faster, smoother version of the experience available to any visitor to   
   the ruined Roman city. But then the perspective changes in a way it can   
   only in a drone-shot video, revealing the sheer scale of Pompeii as   
   does no possible vista from the ground.   
      
   The video just below, which runs nearly six and a half minutes, offers   
   an even more unusual, dramatic, and revealing view of Pompeii, chasing   
   a dog down its empty stone streets, gazing straight down onto the walls   
   of its many roofless buildings, flying between its still-standing   
   columns and pillars, and even following a drone - presumably with   
   another drone - as it navigates the enormous archaeological site.   
      
   These drone's-eye-views may well spark in their viewers a desire to   
   visit Pompeii that had never existed before, or even renew a previously   
   existing desire to do so that has gone dormant. To archaeologists,   
   however, Pompeii has never lost its fascination: researchers continue   
   to discover new artifacts there, and just this year found the remains   
   of a child, a horse, and a fleeing citizen crushed under a boulder.   
   With each new piece of Pompeii unearthed, we learn more about how our   
   predecessors once lived. Combined with the kind of drone footage that   
   has already given us a thrilling new understanding of living cities   
   around the world (and even modern-day Pompeiis like Chernobyl) we come   
   ever closer to a full picture of human history - and to the   
   irresistible, if grim, question of what sort of unimaginable technology   
   humans of the future will use to explore the ruins of the metropolises   
   we live in today.   
      
   Related Content:   
      
   Watch the Destruction of Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius, Re-Created with   
   Computer Animation (79 AD)   
      
   Visit Pompeii (also Stonehenge & Versailles) with Google Street View   
      
   Rome Reborn: Take a Virtual Tour Through Ancient Rome, 320 C.E.   
      
   The History of Rome in 179 Podcasts   
      
   A Haunting Drone's-Eye View of Chernobyl   
      
   Based in Seoul, Colin Marshall writes and broadcasts on cities and   
   culture. His projects include the book The Stateless City: a Walk   
   through 21st-Century Los Angeles and the video series The City in   
   Cinema. Follow him on Twitter at @colinmarshall or on Facebook.   
      
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