Pompeii's museum comes back to life to display amazing archeological finds


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A woman admires a Dionysus bust at the museum Antiquarium, in Pompeii, southern Italy. Photo: AP

Decades after suffering bombing and earthquake damage, Pompeii’s museum has been reborn, showing off exquisite finds from excavations of the ancient Roman city.

Officials of the archeological park of the ruins of the city destroyed in 79 A.D. by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius inaugurated the museum on Monday.

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