Quote:According to Ghedini, Pompeii is the ideal place to redress the gender imbalance created when history is written largely by men. The devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E. froze the city in time. Not only did its blanket of ash preserve human remains, structures, and objects, but archaeologists were granted an otherwise impossibly detailed understanding of the context in which these everyday items were kept and used.