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Pages in category "Deaths in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Name Age Volcano Location Date Pliny the Elder [1] 56: Mount Vesuvius: Italy: 24 August CE 79: Drusilla ~41: Mount Vesuvius: Italy: 24 August CE 79 Marcus Antonius Agrippa: Unknown: Mount Vesuvius: Italy: 24 August CE 79 Caesius Bassus [2] Unknown: Mount Vesuvius: Italy: 24 August CE 79 Aulus Umbricius Scaurus: Unknown: Mount Vesuvius ...
[2] [3] It contains the casts of 13 victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. [ 4 ] The insula once contained more town houses than the two which stand at the northwestern end of the insula but the rest of the area had been largely converted into a vegetable garden and vineyard before the eruption, with a triclinium covered by a ...
When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, the volcano's molten rock, scorching debris and poisonous gases killed nearly 2,000 people in the nearby ancient Italian cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum ...
An archaeologist works on the recently discovered remains of a victim in the archaeological site of the ancient city of Pompeii, which was destroyed in AD 79 by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, in ...
The beach at the Herculaneum archaeological park is thought to be the site where more than 300 men tried in vain to save themselves while awaiting rescue by Pliny the Elder.
Deaths in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD (6 P) Pages in category "Deaths in volcanic eruptions" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Mount Vesuvius: 5 Italy: 1631 1631 eruption of Mount Vesuvius: 3,000 Ritter Island: 2 Papua New Guinea: 1888 1888 Ritter Island eruption and tsunami: 2,957 Mount Papandayan: 3 Indonesia: 1772 [5] 2,942 Mount Lamington: 4 Papua New Guinea: 1951 1951 eruption of Mount Lamington: 2,806 Mount Awu: 3 Indonesia: 1856 [6] 2,033 Oshima Oshima: 4 Japan ...