Life and Death: Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum - video preview
A major exhibition on the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, buried by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, is being held at the British Museum in London. Here, senior curator Paul Roberts shows Charlotte Higgins some of the 450 objects on display, including erotic statue Pan and the goat, a loaf of bread and casts of city residents
Opening clip ©The Trustees of the British Museum.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/video/2013/mar/26/pompeii-herculaneum-british-museum-video
If by chance you're in the UK and you've never made a visit to Pompeii then this is must see. Visits to the British Museum are considerably more humane than visits to Pompeii - you don't need thick soled shoes to protect your feet from the heat underfoot nor an umbrella to protect you head from the fierce overhead sun 
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is that at the British Museum you're also considerably less likely to have you handbag, purse whatever snatched. I was in Pompeii twenty years and the walk from the station where coaches park to the ruins is a notorious mugging strip.
Awesome doesn't close to describing Pompeii - its totally effing amazing with the level of preservation simply astounding particularly some of the frescos.
Most of the other site , Herculaneum , is inaccessible - its underneath Naples.
