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It is wrong for the people conserving and reconstructing method on the sites of Pompeii and Herculaneum. In conserving method of letting tourist in, as they caused more issue including dipping rubbish and writing on Walls and vandalise and crime stealing gold and silver and historical treasure the entire only tourist problem. There is also a thread from nature as animal dropping and plants root such as ivory growing on the walls of the side and the roots seek into the walls and made it unstable. In the methods on reconstructing the sites there might be using the wrong method as sometimes the use of concrete to stabilize the walls also ripen at a much faster speed. Most frescoes survive today are some are regonlise.in It is uncertain that it the correct answer to excavating the sites of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
For the process of excavating and protection to excess to exist, they need founding to continue the work. In the past for the excavation work to process, funding is needed and often by very rich man. And often reasons for is personally interest and the methods of excavating are reckless. Even the new methods of excavating are trying to protect the place such as in 1997 Italian parliament passes law stating that Pompeii and Herculaneum receive all money collected from entry fees.
Letting tourist into the sites are very destructible as that is the main reason the sites of Pompeii and Herculaneum have a “second death.” About 2.5 million people visit Pompeii each year making it one of the most popular tourist attractions in Italy. Tourist leaving the rubbish and the hands touching the wall scrape off the colour from the fresco and stealing morsels of marble as souvenirs destroy the monument at a very slow and pain staking way...

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...the sites Vesuvius national park opened and the 1997 the Pompeii, Herculaneum, stabiae and the Villa at Oplontis declared World Heritage Sites. These laws can help out better conserve the sites. In 1997 Italian parliament passes law stating that Pompeii and Herculaneum receive all money collected from entry fees help the sites to have more money and also created the problems as tourist leaving rubbish behind and taking pieces of the stone from the sites and hands touching and backpack scraping the wall make the colour paint from frescoes wall to deterioration even faster. As Alexander Stille in The future of the past: The loss of knowledge in the age of information. “State that conservation work is to slow down the forces of deterioration and change which people are actually concerted the present “which offers a highly distorted, fragmentary version of the past.”

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