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House of the Vettii: Pompeii home owned by former slaves reopens

Summary by Ground News
The House of the Vettii, built in the second century BC, was buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79. Adorned in mythological frescos and phallic sculptures, the house reopened on Tuesday after years of restoration work. The owners, freedmen and ex-slaves, are the expression of a social mobility that would have been unthinkable two centuries earlier.

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