25-06-2024 20:08 via artnews.com

Tourist Carves Name into Ancient Pompeii Villa

Ancient graffiti may line the city walls of Pompeii, but a tourist was recently caught adding his own name onto a wall, sparking outrage in the latest act of vandalism at an archaeological site.A man from Kazakhstan reportedly carved “Ali” on light plaster in the House of the Ceii when he was caught on Saturday/ The wall is part of an ancient villa believed to have been owned by the magistrate Lucius Ceius Secundus.The vandal will have to pay for the necessary restoration work to rem
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