India, March 7 -- It was my lifelong dream to visit Pompeii in Italy. Once I started researching it for my trip, I realised that I just had to visit Herculaneum, and the National Archaeological Museum in Naples too, as visiting all three together would give me the complete picture.

Pompeii and Herculaneum are Roman towns frozen in time by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, preserving homes, streets, frescoes, and even human stories beneath volcanic ash. These places aren't just old ruins on a map; they are time capsules of a vanished world. And the museum in Naples, the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), ties it all together. It houses some of the best-preserved treasures and artefacts from these sites and...