By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Pompeii is often thought of as an undisturbed time capsule, a once-bustling port that fell silent after Mount Vesuvius erupted and blanketed the ancient Roman city with a thick layer of ash in AD 79. “It is such a great persistent narrative,” Dr. Steven Tuck, professor and head of classics at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, told CNN. “You walk around Pompeii, and you’re pretty much hit with that story: Everybo…