pompeii volcano victims

Last weekend was devoted to spending some time in Naples as well as checking out Pompeii. Pompeii is an ancient Roman town that fell victim to the explosion of the nearby volcano, Mount Vesuvius. While the tragedy of 79...


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Volcano Death Recipe: Pompeii


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Pompeii Victim

You can see history preserved by the tragic volcano eruption through hundreds of artifacts that include body casts of the volcano's victims. In 79 AD, Mt. Vesuvius, a volcano in the gulf of Naples, Italy erupted and destroyed the...
A Day in Pompeii « We are Boston Life

The excavations in Pompeii. One man who witnessed and perished in the volcanic disaster was Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23-79), better known as Pliny the Elder, whose account of his final days and fateful voyage into the region... Many victims in Pompeii were killed when their shelter collapsed, but over 60% died as a result of ash and heat produced by pyroclastic surge – a fluidised mass of turbulent gas and rock fragments ejected by the erupting volcano.
pompeii volcano victims