Pompeii

Brothels, loos, ornate bathing chambers, ruts in the road made by horse and carts, and election slogans daubed on walls: there’s nowhere like Pompeii — the most-visited archaeological site in the world — to illustrate the colour of Roman life in the first century AD. Most famed for being the city ‘frozen in time’, when Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, the plaster casts of the victims buried by the ashes are a highlight of a Pompeii tour, as is the world’s oldest surviving amphitheatre.