Text excerpted from MEMINI, by Nathalie H. de Saint Phalle, Egyptologist and writer, Naples
(...) These lines speak of paths across spaces and through time, paths that seem to forge into successive time periods overlapping one another. This is evident in Naples where the city center still has the original Greco-Roman layout intact. It was never truly destroyed and therefore was constructed as each civilization built upon what was already there over the course of 2800 years. History passes through the walls and floors, like the stain of the black marker in the deep divide, across the roofs and into the depths of the underground city. (...) It remains, according to Malaparte "the most mysterious city of Europe, the only ancient city in the world that has not perished as have Ilion, Ninive, and Babylone.  It is the only city in the world that has not sunk into the oblivion as other ancient civilizations have. Naples is the Pompei that has never been laid to rest.  It's not a city, it's a world. The ancient pre-Christian world that has remained intact on the surface of the modern world."