Why is the city of Pompeii so well preserved?

Answer 1

Because the ash and rock kept any eroding agent from reaching whatever was left of Pompeii after Vesuvius levelled it.

Answer 2

As has been said by others, because the city (and its neighbour, Herculaneum) were covered in volcanic ash. Not just a covering but many, many metres deep. Far too deep for grave robbers in search of treasure. At first, those who survived remembered it., as did educated Romans of the time. But that time passed, memories dimmed, the Empire fell, the western world was consumed by the Dark Ages, people forgot. Then in the early middle ages, people began to read those ancient texts that had survived. There were stories - particularly those of Pliny the Younger whose uncle had died in the eruption. But were these myths or details of a real happening. But the medieval mind-set didn't care very much so nobody bothered to search. It wasn't until the 18th century Enlightenment that people really began to want to investigate the past and archaeology was born. And Pompeii and Herculaneum began to be excavated.

Answer 3

After the volcano errupted and the hot lava cooled down.it solidified and it acted as a protactive shelf of the city and it's people! When the catastrophe happened,it killed many lives,but it also preserved an era for us to have the chance to,at least,see what Pompeii looked like.

Answer 4

What got here down from the mountain become a large-warm wave of carbon dioxide. people who concealed theory that they might escape "stuff." They have been asphyxiated and "baked" the place they have been. The ash got here down later on and lined them. Later archeologists got here across cavities interior the ash the place bodies had decomposed. They poured plaster into the cavities and recovered casts of people. previous that, the ash preserved a city of hundreds of people, finished with artwork artwork.

Answer 5

Because all the nutrients in the ash have acted as sort of a blocker for eroding and destruction.

Answer 6

because when the volcanoes erupted, they covered everything and preserved it with the molten rock and volcanic ash

Answer 7

the statues come to life at night and fix the city

Answer 8

To let the wolrd know that this happens if you be naughty!