• Home
  • Mount Vesuvius once coated this city in ashes. Now archaeologists are helping Pompeii rise

Mount Vesuvius once coated this city in ashes. Now archaeologists are helping Pompeii rise

In 79 C.E., an ash column with a mushroom top towered over the ancient Roman city of Pompeii as residents scrambled to flee the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The effects of the eruption were devastating to the area.

As one ancient historian, Pliny the Younger, recounted the events to another historian, Cornelius Tacitus, “On Mount Vesuvius sheets of fire and leaping flames blazed at several points, their bright glare emphasized by the darkness of night.”

Source: https://www.deseret.com

READ MORE
PREVIOUS POST
Areas
Categories
We the Italians # 194