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noun - ancient city to the southeast of Naples that was buried by a volcanic eruption from Vesuvius
An ancient city of southern Italy southeast of Naples.
POMPEII - Pompeii was an ancient Roman city near modern Naples in the Campania region of Italy, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. Pompeii, along with H...
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| Buried Roman city |
| Ill-fated city of A.D. 79 |
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| In the 1860s Guiseppe Fiorelli made human body casts from the cavities the dead left in the ash in this city |
| cities destroyed by Mount Vesuvius along with Stabiae |
| The ruins of this Italian city were found by a 16th c. architect; the well-preserved bodies won't help your resale |
| Italian city that suddenly wasn't in 79 A.D. |
| People began digging up this Italian city in 1748, only 1,669 years after it was buried |
| The Nucerian Gate was one of 8 gates leading into this city before it was buried by Vesuvius in 79 A.D. |
| Excavations of this ancient city began in 1748; it was buried under 20 feet of volcanic debris |
| One minute in 79 A.D., you're this city of 10-20,000; post-Vesuvius, you're a UNESCO World Heritage Site |
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Pompeii was an ancient Roman city near modern Naples in the Campania region of Italy, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area (e.g. at Boscoreale, Stabiae), was buried under 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft) of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Many of the inhabitants were also buried before they could escape. * The catastrophe was described in a surviving letter by Pliny the Younger who saw the eruption from a distance and described the death of his uncle Pliny the Elder, an admiral of the Roman fleet, who tried to rescue citizens. The site was eventually lost until its initial rediscovery in 1599 and broader rediscovery almost 150 years later by Spanish engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre in 1748. The city has been largely preserved because of lack of air and moisture. The artefacts preserved provide an extraordinarily detailed insight into the life of the city. During excavations liquid |