Around 2.5m tourists visit Pompeii, which sits near the southern city of Naples, every year.
Here, in the smoking ruins of Pompeii, sometimes it's hard to see the light.
That is out of a total of about 1, 150 bodies that have been discovered in Pompeii.
Society ignoring our reliance on oil is like the people of Pompeii ignoring the rumblings below Vesuvius.
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The first myth to be debunked is that Pompeii was a sister city to Sodom and Gommorah.
Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum will open on 28 March and run until 29 September, 2013.
As a third of Pompeii has yet to be excavated, more human and animal remains could be found.
"Pompeii is a great showcase because it lets you discover a city that no longer exists, " said Dr Ernst.
Most of the works have come to London as a result of close collaboration with the Archaeological Superintendency of Naples and Pompeii.
Paul Roberts, the exhibition's curator, says the painting offers a unique insight into the life of Pompeii's citizens in the 1st century AD.
In the prudish centuries the moral castigators preached that Pompeii must indeed have been a most immoral city because the phallus was everywhere.
Many of them will be watching the Pompeii app's progress up the charts to see if this kind of digital venture offers one solution.
In another section of the exhibition, large vibrant pieces of fresco from a villa in Pompeii, dating back to the 1st Century BC, hang on the wall.
These materials rarely survive the tests of time, leading archaeologists to dub the site the "Pompeii of the north, " the Museum of London Archaeology said.
Bastille's new entry Pompeii was at number two, while last week's number one, One Direction's cover of Blondie's One Way Or Another, fell to three.
The ones who do come to see the ruins of Pompeii, a city once buried under ash, leave by roads buried today under festering waste.
After five years of preparation, Roberts has brought together 400 objects that focus on the lives - and deaths - of the citizens of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
At a conference in Tubingen this week the teams will show off CyberWalk and the CityEngine being used to let people stroll around ancient Pompeii and Rome.
On a trip to Pompeii to study the Temple of Apollo, they stayed in a family-run hotel and dined on wonderful food in the hotel's courtyard at night.
While some are calling for Pompeii to change hands from public to private control, others simply hope the Berlusconi government will respond to the calls for cultural preservation.
The resulting 650 Gigabyte bittorrent file is the digital Pompeii that is the subject of an interactive excavation that allows you to wander through an episode of recent online history.
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More than 250 archaeological remains from the lives of people in the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum will feature in a new exhibition at the British Museum next year.
While it is getting harder to get users to pay for apps - except through those notorious in-app purchases - the museum may find it is on a winner with Pompeii.
When Pompeii's 2, 000-year-old "House of Gladiators" collapsed in November, followed by the collapse of three more walls in December, critics accused the government of failing to preserve the archaeological treasure.
His students have been seen in Pompeii, reading Pliny's letters aloud as they stroll the streets, and at the Fons Bandusia near Rome, pouring wine into the water while reciting Horace.
The event will be the first about Pompeii and Herculaneum in London for 40 years and will bring together recently discovered objects and finds from earlier excavations, many of which have never been seen outside Italy.
The famous casts show victims of the volcano in Pompeii, including a family of four huddled together in their final moments, and a dog "fixed forever at the moment of its death as the volcano submerged the cities".
Museum director, Neil MacGregor, said the exhibition has been possible following a collaboration with the Archaeological Superintendency of Naples and Pompeii, "which has meant extremely generous loans of precious objects from their collections, some that have never travelled before".
The double portrait - the only one of its kind to have been found in the area - is one of the highlights of the British Museum's Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum which opens this week.
"I am currently testing how to best utilise our heritage assets - the plan to develop the buried village around Dunluce Castle, a piece of our own Pompeii, in heritage and tourist terms and developing work around Carrickfergus Castle are two representative examples, " he said.
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