Pompeii
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Sunlight paints stark contrasts across the petrified city. Where grand marble temples once gleamed, weathered columns reach skyward like skeletal fingers. Crumbling frescoes hang like faded memories on the walls of silent homes, their mosaic floors worn smooth by the passage of absent feet. In the heart of the forum, the once-roaring amphitheater sits eerily empty, its tiered stone seats waiting in vain for the cheers of a forgotten crowd.
