2007-03-07 08:51:15 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Pompeii is a ruined Roman city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. It was destroyed, and completely buried, during a catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius on 24 August 79 AD.
2007-03-07 09:02:41 · answer #1 · answered by MTSU history student 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vesuvious erupted and destroyed Pompeii on the 24 August AD 79
2007-03-07 09:02:53 · answer #2 · answered by snow white 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While Pompeii did have suffer from a Vesuvius eruption in 34 AD it was not destroyed.
In the eruption of 79 AD it was not only totally destroyed by being covered by millions of tons of volcanic ash which killed the greater portion of the population by suffocation - it was actually lost to history for hundreds of years before ever being found again after being completely fogotten for centuries!!
2007-03-07 09:02:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
by using the 1st century advert, Pompeii became into purely one in all countless cities placed around the backside of Mount Vesuvius. the section had a substantial inhabitants which grew wealthy from the area's admired agricultural fertility. lots of Pompeii's neighboring communities, maximum famously Herculaneum, additionally suffered harm or destruction for the period of the seventy 9 advert eruption. the human beings of Pompeii have been lined in as much as twelve diverse layers of soil.
2016-12-18 07:52:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-03-07 08:55:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
79 C.E.
2007-03-07 08:54:04 · answer #6 · answered by boston857 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋