Similarities and Differences: Then and Now
Similarities
Pompeii is still located at the same place as it was before. The city is still very busy and lots of tourist visit it still. There are still trading in Pompeii at the moment.
Differences
Pompeii is now destroyed or in ruins because of the eruption of Vesuvius. The words "lively and "alive" doesn't suit certain parts of Pompeii anymore as those parts are known to be dead.