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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.

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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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