European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 5, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Three years ago Casa diet cast Amanti was still buried under 25 feet of Ash and Stone. Now it is on its Way to being restored. Naples Italy was buried during an eruption of mount Vesuvius in the year 79. People and animals were killed instantly and buried under a thick layer of cinders ashes and Stone that preserved them and Many of the City s buildings. Today visitors walking amid the acres of Villas temples and shops can get a Good idea of the romans customs architecture and Art at the time the City ceased to exist. Some Day the hundreds of thousands of visitors who tour Pompeii every year will also be Able to enter the Casar of  . It is one of several structures being uncovered at Pompeii and was visited recently by government officials and Media representatives who were Given a behind the scenes look at the it ongoing excavations and a sneak preview of  the Public will see. The Structure whose name Means Quot the Home of Chaste lovers Quot is being restored while being excavated a time consuming process that takes considerably longer than the technique used to unearth much of the rest of Pompeii. Quot people used to dig and not restore As they dug Quot says Baldassare Conticello Pompeii s superintendent of archaeology. Quot consequently All the Money went into digging because when you dig you c an publish your  restoring on the other hand does t usually produce discoveries that c an be published so that process used to be left until after a site was completely excavated. Hut there Are some compelling reasons to restore during the digging process such As the Impact that being uncovered has on paintings. Quot the largest loss of color in paintings is in the first Day when it dries. Part of the pigment is lost. If we restore at the same time As we dig we can save paintings colors Quot Conticello says. To see Casa Dei c Asti , it is necessary first to c limb a Mound and then descend a rickety wooden ramp for 2r> feet. Visitors pass through a series of rooms where the floors Are still littered. Continued on Paie it Pompeii researchers uncovering More about Italy s past Baldassare Conticello is Pompeii s superintendent of  Gary Miller Mediterranean Bureau archaeologists Are unearthing a House in the ancient City of Pompeii that May shed even More Light on what life in the roman Empire was like nearly 2,000 years ago. Pompeii about a to a minute drive South of disc Unher 5, /99/ stripes Magazine 3