One person, sitting alone looks like he is praying. Another man, lying on his side, looks as if he is trying to get up. Today, more than 250 years since excavations started, thousands of tourists and hundreds of archaeologists, visit Pompeii every year to learn more about the ancient world, In this way, the city, which the world had once forgotten, lives on nearly 2,000 years after the eruption, that had destroyed it on August 24th, 79AD.