What was it called when
there was a volcanoe that erupted and covered the people in the nearby town.
Over time the people's remains decayed and left holes in the hardened lava.
Many Many years later people came and filled the holes with clay stuff and removed the hard lava to reveal statues of the people of the nearby town.
What was the volcanoe or event or place called?
2006-06-17 15:40:41 · 11 answers · asked by brownskirtsandsandals 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Pompeii Italy on August 23, 79 AD
Pictures of some bodies (the plaster casts of) can be found at: http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/volcanoes/bodies1.html
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/464456
http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/staff/DarleneBishop/rome/PompHistory.html
2006-06-17 15:48:26 · answer #1 · answered by Dan S 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Although your question started out a little ambiguous, there are two answers to the query. What was it called? It was called a pyroclastic flow the killed the inhabitance of Pompei and Herculanea. These are towns in Italy near the town of present day Naples. A pyroclastic flow is the discharge of a volcano with hot gases, steam, and rocks and moves at atonishing speeds much like that of Mount Saint Helens in this country in the eighties. The volcano (Visouvious) that is still active erupted in about the year 78BC in one the most terrible pyroclastic flows ever. The mountain erupts around every once in a while, the last one was in the 1940's in which the slow lava flow, unlike the one on 78bc swallowed a town in modern day Italy. The montain was called Visouvious and is active today.
2006-06-17 23:02:35 · answer #2 · answered by michael s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mt Vesuvius... and the city was Pompei...
There's actually a short story someone wrote about one of the figures found in Pompeii- I think it's called "The dog of Pompeii", and the figure was a little dog with a piece of bread or a roll in his mouth.
2006-06-17 22:49:42 · answer #3 · answered by Yoda's Duck 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
City of Pompeii, eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
2006-06-17 22:42:56 · answer #4 · answered by KWCHAMBER 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mount Vesuvius erupted and covered the town of Pompei.
2006-06-17 22:43:20 · answer #5 · answered by The Good Humor Man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is Mt. Vesuvius, and it was the city of Pompeii (near Naples) in Italy. The casts were made from the ash deposits.
2006-06-17 22:51:53 · answer #6 · answered by whirlygirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pompeii?
2006-06-17 22:45:26 · answer #7 · answered by songbird 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pompeii?
2006-06-17 22:43:31 · answer #8 · answered by help 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pompay??
2006-06-17 22:44:30 · answer #9 · answered by pickledpoot 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pompei - ancient city which ended just how you described.
2006-06-17 23:07:24 · answer #10 · answered by laureny23 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋