Disaster strikes Pompeii... Collapse of several walls

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The Wall Street Journal has a good article: While Pompeii Crumbles.

They stress the importance of private sources of funds in the future. This was rather sobering:

A continuing study by the preservationist group Our Italy has already identified more than 80 major monuments and archaeological sites nationwide at grave risk of collapse, including Bologna's two great medieval towers, the ancient Aurelian walls around Rome, and Capua's Roman amphitheater, second in size only to the Colosseum.