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What was the Great Pompeii Project designed to do?

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Ruins of ancient Pompeii with stone columns and walls in the foreground, and Mount Vesuvius rising in the background under a partly cloudy sky. — Pompeii Mount Vesuvius rising up over the ruins of the ancient Roman city Pompeii.

The Great Pompeii Project, which began in 2012, was an initiative designed to restore and protect various features of the ancient city of Pompeii.1

The project was established to address the ongoing degradation of the site, which had long faced threats from weather, tourist traffic, and destructive vegetation. It served as a critical effort to ensure the preservation, restoration, and study of the valuable archaeological evidence already uncovered at the site before it could be lost to further decay or mismanagement.1