Together again 2,000 years on

UK archeologists have reunited a married couple after 2,000 years apart - by piecing together fragments of their gravestones.

The tombs of Lucius Catilius Pamphilus and his wife, Servilia, who lived in the ancient city of Pompeii, were smashed into pieces during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.

But now Peter Kruschwitz and Virginia Campbell from the University of Reading have managed to piece together the fragments.

The pair are now side by side in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. "Amazingly the inscription was fragmented in such a way that all that was missing was the name of the wife," said Mr Kruschwitz.