Herculaneum’s Ruins Are Revived by Philanthropy.
Mount Vesuvius, Italy: Map, Facts, Eruption Pictures, Pompeii. Mount Vesuvius Introduction Vesuvius is the only active volcano in mainland Europe, and has produced some of the continent's largest volcanic eruptions.
Located on Italy's west coast, it overlooks the Bay and City of Naples and sits in the crater of the ancient Somma volcano. Vesuvius is most famous for the 79 AD eruption which destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Though the volcano's last eruption was in 1944, it still represents a great danger to the cities that surround it, especially the busy metropolis of Naples. Mount Vesuvius: Plate Tectonic Setting. Pompeii - Ancient Pompeii - A Visitors Guide to the Pompeii Excavations. Say what you will about natural disasters like the one that befell the little cities below Vesuvius in 79 AD, but one thing is for certain: Archaeologists and historians sifting through the ancient remains can tell far more about these cities than they can about ones that took their sweet time to collapse.
Imagine, at dawn on August 25, 79 A.D., a violent explosion of toxic gases and burning cinders from an eruption that had started a day earlier caused time to come to a stop at Pompeii. People were covered in ash doing whatever they could to survive. Frescoes were left undone, the paints still in their pots. The ash and cinders covered and preserved the scene exactly as it was at that moment. As tragic as it was, the information preserved beneath the rubble was as pristine as it gets for a 2000 year old site. Tour of Pompeii, the Forgotten City - Images of Italy (Pictures and History) A Brief (extremely brief!!)
History of Pompeii Pompeii was first occupied in the 8th century BC. The Etruscans soon dominated the region and Pompeii was no exception.
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