POMPEII

August 2019

Pompeii was a Roman town in southern Italy. On 24 August 79 AD Pompeii was buried under volcanic ash and rock following the eruption of the volcano, Mount Vesuvius. Most of the people who lived there were killed.

The town was excavated 1,600 years later and the remains of many items, buildings and people were found in a “petrified” state (as they were at the time of the eruption).

Today you can walk through the streets of what was once the first-century Roman city of Pompeii.

The 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius was the first time the volcano had erupted for 1,800 years. The people of Pompeii didn’t know what a volcano was.