... settled by a family group (gens Pompeia)"(Kraus 7). In the course of the eight century B.C., Greek and Etruscan colonization stimulated the development of Pompeii as a city around the area of the Forum. A point for important trade routes, it became a place for trading towards the inland. Up until the middle of the 5th century B.C., the city was dominated politically by the Etruscans. In ... the area searched for hidden treasure and they made tunnels. In the 1500's workers digging a tunnel to change the course of the Sarno river discovered parts of a temple and the forum, but no one paid...

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... -four meters above sea level; the lowest was eight meters above sea level (Brit 209). The temple of the Capitoline triad of deities, being Jupiter, Juno and Minerva, dominates the forum in the north. Opposite the Capitoline is the large basilica, surrounded on four sides by corridors. It is very architecturally significant due to its considerable importance in studying the origin ... ...

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