text: All visits to Pompeii and Herculaneum should begin or end here , since the world-famous collections beautifully display not only the paintings and mosaics buried there nearly 2,000 years ago by Mount Vesuvius , but a host of other sculptures from the region 's villas and temples , brought here for safe-keeping .
  
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  Mount Vesuvius erupted 13000 years ago .