Relics of Pompeii and Herculaneum

A fresco showing the baker Terentius Neo and his wife, found in the ruins of Pompeii, is part of "Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum," an exhibition at the British Museum in London.

The exhibition about the two Roman cities, buried by a catastrophic volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, will run from March 28 to Sept. 29, 2013.

A cast of a man who died in Pompeii, made by filling plaster in the void left by his body.

A museum employee looks at three large frescos at the "Life and death Pompeii and Herculaneum" exhibition.

A woman looks at a statue of Empress Livia, right, found in the ruins of the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, and one of priestess Eumachia, left, found in Pompeii.

An employee of the British Museum holds a gold snake bracelet unearthed from the destroyed Roman city of Pompeii.

A detail of a large fresco at the "Life and death Pompeii and Herculaneum" exhibition shows the head of a decapitated woman.

A cast of a woman, one of more than 70 people who died in the basement of a villa in Oplontis, near Pompeii.

Preserved carbonized figs from the site of the destroyed Roman seaside town of Herculaneum.

Jewelery found in the ruins of a house in Pompeii are displayed in front of the casts of a family of two adults and two children.

Visitors walks past marble sculptures of stags being attacked by hunting dogs, found in the ruins of the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum.

Casts of a family of two adults and two children who died together in an alcove in Pompeii, made by filling plaster in the void left by their bodies.

A cast of a dog, which was made by filling plaster in the void left by its body, found in Pompeii.

A reconstructed child's cradle is displayed at the "Life and death Pompeii and Herculaneum" exhibition.

A museum employee looks at a carbonized loaf of bread at the "Life and death Pompeii and Herculaneum" exhibition.

A bronze colander shows the name of the artisan that made it.

The remains of a charcoal filled brazier.