This is an amazing place, and the guide (Rebecca from City Wonders) did a great job of explaining what we were seeing.
This is Rebecca showing us the map of the site:
This site was covered up quite differently from the way Pompeii was - it was just covered up gradually by river silt. It was also uncovered quite differently as well - much of the uncovered stuff was dug out on orders from Mussolini with no care for proper archaeological process, so no-one will ever know how much evidence and information was lost in the process.
There is a bit of competition between the sites; there's very little money available for archaeology so any money that's spent on one site the other one feels they've lost. In reality both sites are so huge that you could spend outrageous amounts of money investigating and researching them properly, but sadly in the case of Ostia Antica there doesn't even seem to be enough money to properly protect the parts of the site that have already been opened up. Honestly though, if you only have time to go to Pompeii or Ostia Antica and not both, I'd go to Ostia Antica.
Just a couple of photos of this huge and interesting place:
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