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The first day of the eruption had little effect on Misenum. [15] Pompeii is never mentioned in Pliny the Younger's letter. [17] Around 1:00 p.m., Mount Vesuvius erupted violently, spewing up a high-altitude column from which ash and pumice began to fall, blanketing the area. [15] Rescues and escapes occurred over the next few hours. [15]
Fascinating artworks have been uncovered in a new excavation at Pompeii, the ancient Roman city doomed and buried by Mount Vesuvius’s deadly eruption in AD79.. The most impressive discovery is ...
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of two more victims of the notoriously deadly Mount Vesuvius eruption that buried Pompeii in 79 A.D.
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 ...
[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 ...
Floorplan of Pompeii II 2,2 House of Octavius Quartio based on Spinazzola plan produced in 1916-1921 The exterior walls of the complex are composed of opus incertum (stone rubble embedded in concrete) with ashlar piers, except for the easternmost corner, which was constructed with opus vittatum mixtum (a combination of brick and stone blocks ...
When the volcano blew, the town was covered by boiling hot volcanic ash. Although most of the residents escaped in the early hours of the eruption, more than 1,000 did not.
Lucius Caecilius Iucundus (born c. AD 9, [1] fl. AD 27–c. AD 62) was a banker who lived in the Roman town of Pompeii around AD 14–62. His house still stands and can be seen in the ruins of the city of Pompeii which remain after being partially destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79.