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Romans took control of Pompeii around 200 BC. On August 24, 79 AD, Vesuvius erupted, burying the nearby town of Pompeii in ash and soot, killing 20000 people, and preserving the city in its state from that fateful day. Pompeii is an...


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Around noon, Mt. Vesuvius began pouring tons of ash into the sky. It had been rumbling for a few days but no one thought much of it. As the ash piled up in Pompeii the people must have started to panic. The entire town was...
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Nowadays, tourists from all over the world come to Pompeii, in Naples, to see the buildings, the murals or the mosaics that were preserved to date by the Vesuvius's devastating ash. But how did Pompeii, one of Naples's and even Italy's most important historical sites, come to be buried under tons of debris and volcanic ash? Well, it seems that Vesuvius erupted one day after the people from Pompeii celebrated Vulcanolia, the feast of their god of fire and volcanoes.
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