A 27-year-old Dutch man has been arrested in Italy for defacing an ancient Roman monument.
Visitors alerted guards after seeing the man scrawl a graffiti tag in black marker pen on a wall in the historic city of Herculaneum, near Naples, on Sunday.
The city was destroyed in 79AD by the same volcanic eruption that consumed Pompeii and is now an archaeological site and tourist attraction. Many of its remains are well preserved under the lava.
A spokesman for the Italian culture ministry condemned the vandalism and vowed to prosecute the man with the full force of the law.
“Once again our cultural…
