Daily Life in Pompeii Before the Eruption, 79 CE | Calm Bedtime History

It is a morning in June, in the year 79 of the common era. The sun rises over the Bay of Naples, and in the city of Pompeii, a woman steps into her atrium to hear water dripping from the compluvium onto the impluvium below. The mountain Vesuvius stands to the north, as it has for every morning of her life, its slopes green with vines and silent.