ABSTRACT
On April 18, 1881, during one of his many visits to Ouro Preto, Dom Pedro II found an important archaeological site on Morro da Queimada (Burnt Hill). The Emperor, erudite and widely-traveled, wrote in his journal that these ruins reminded him of Pompeii, the Roman city buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, discovered in 1748 and today a famous archeological site, visited by specialists and tourists the world over.
