Mount Vesuvius still looms, quiet for now, over Pompeii. But for the lost Roman city, the drama never really ends.Buried in A.D. 79 by the volcano’s eruption, the storied victim of antiquity continues to surprise scholars with new discoveries, even as their hopes dim for the site’s survival.

Buried in A.D. 79 by the volcano’s eruption, the storied victim of antiquity continues to surprise scholars with new discoveries, even as their hopes dim for the site’s survival.

“There is a lot going on, and it’s always in crisis,” says classicist Kenneth Lapatin of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

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