time of the eruption was probably one of the safest rooms in the villa and probably the owner gave the order to a trusted man to hide it for better times. All the treasure was smuggled out to France and sold. The excavations of the villa were then resumed in 1896 by Angiolo Pasqui: it consisted of the main residence, to the north-west, and a pars rustica, the production and service areas. The breeding of farmyard animals was practiced and most of the rooms on the ground floor were used for processing and conservation of oil, wine and cereals. References Sources Bettina Bergmann et al., Roman Frescoes from Boscoreale: The Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor in Reality and Virtual Reality (Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 62.4 [Spring 2010]) Further reading External links Official Pompeii site of the SANP Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide, a collection catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art containing information on Villa Boscoreale (page 325) Official site of the National Archaeological Museum in Naples: themed collections for Pompeii Some of the best illustrations of art and artistic small finds many put back into their original find locations on pompeiiinpictures Romano-Campanian Wall-Painting Boscoreale Roman sites of Campania Buildings and structures in the Metropolitan City of Naples Boscoreale 1st-century BC paintings 1st-century BC establishments in Italy 70s disestablishments in the Roman Empire 1st-century disestablishments in Italy Hellenistic art Roman Empire paintings National museums of Italy Architecture in collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Boscoreale Archaeological sites in Campania Houses of Pompeii