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Tourist is caught carving initials into 2,000-year-old home at Pompeii | CNN

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A 37-year-old British tourist engraved the initials of himself and his family into one of Pompeii's houses.

The man, 37 , is said to have made five engravings on the wall of the House of the Vestal Virgins .

The case has been referred upwards to the local court in Torre Annuziata as “damage to artistic heritage”.