Barb and Art of Badger wrote in their newsletter:
"For 3 EU we took the bus from Amalfi to Naples - it runs along the Amalfi coast - which is fabulous and rather a heart-in-the-throat ride. When we got there two women helped us find the Arch. museum with all the frescos from pompei. One was a tour guide! What luck. There were rooms and rooms for frescos from pompeii taken from the ruins after the descovery in the 1700s. We learned how they made their paints, about women who were painters, there was even two frescos showing the/a woman artist painting.
The subject matter mostly was about their myths...taken of course from the Greeks. But the Romans did not include many of the Greek myths that warned against humans over reaching their bounds. Their stories were about Troy and Aenenas - how after troy he sailed back home and founded Rome.
There were lots of glass objects and bronze cooking ware. AND there were two burnt papyrus books that were found as a lump of black in the 1700s. A conservator from the Vatican invented a machine to very slowly unwrap the wad of papryrus. After the unwinding the researchers found new books and stories that they did not know about.
We found Naples to be an interesting city with an ancient fort...a book alley called Port Albus...the architecture of two galleries was spectacular..."