Pompei: The Legend of Vesuvius

Posted by Mervyn Graham.
First posted on 07 October 2010. Last updated on 05 June 2011.
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The city of Pompeii immediately conjured up images of the cataclysmic event that took place in August 79 A.D. An earthquake shattered the walls of the city, followed then by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The 20,000 or so inhabitants were buried under some 20 meters of volcanic ash, stones, and pumice. For nearly 1,700 years, the lost city of Pompeii was just that—a city lost and entrapped in a…

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