Beautiful fact
When the bronze statues of Pompeii were dug up, workmen’s shovels made them ring like bells.
In this fresco from Pompeii, the seated woman plays a kithara (a kind of lyre). Once thought to depict a music lesson, it may in fact portray a romantic tryst.
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