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Marion Rae

Time machine to Pompeii: blockbuster opens in Australia

The eruption of Mt Vesuvius is captured in an immersive National Museum of Australia exhibition. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

Delightful frescoes and citizens buried alive can be glimpsed through a window on the world's most complete ancient city ruins.

No longer half a world away, hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected to walk the streets of Pompeii in a summer exhibition that is like a terrifying time machine to the Roman era of gladiators, decadence and destruction.

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