Pompeii is famous for a volcano named Mt. Vesuvius. The eruptions of Mt. Vesuvius took the lives of many people that lived in Pompeii during the year AD 79.
Pompeii was buried under ash and pumice.The city was lost for almost 1700 years, when it was accidentally rediscovered in 1748.How interesting(wink, wink):Peace
Guess how a TEENAGER was involved in this event? At 17 years old, Pliny the Younger (who grew up to be a lawyer, author, and philosopher), was wathing from across the bay as Mt. Vesuvious erupted in 79 B.C.. He wrote what he saw in a couple of letters to a historian named Tacitus. Pliny the Younger's letters are the ONLY surviving, reliable eyewitness account of the event [moral of the story...learn to write, children ;) ]
The rocks at Vesuvius are called tephrite. A tephrite is basaltic in character and contains the following minerals: calcic plagioclase, augite, and nepheline or leucite http://www.geocities.com/vesuvius79ad/
Pompeii was destroyed and completly buried after Mt. Vesuvius erupted. Mudd and ash created a cement like substance that froze people during their daily activities.
The poet Papinius Statius (40- 96 AD) made many references to the ruins caused by Vesuvius in his collection of poems "Silvae". The poet lived in Naples for long time and was possibly there during the eruption, as he got a poetry premium in the town in 78 or 80 AD. Soon after he left and lived in Rome until 92. On that date he had to write a poem (Silvae III, 5) "Ad Claudiam Uxorem" to convince his wife to come back to Naples (Paratore, 1992).
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Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year 79 C.E. (Common Era)
http://vulcan.fis.uniroma3.it/vesuvio/79_eruption.html
Almost nothing was seen of Pompeii for more than 1500 years after Vesuvius erupted.
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/pompeii/
When Mount Vesuvius erupted, it buried Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Pompeii.html
Pompeii had running water, fast food booths, and private swimming pools.
http://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/02_03/FP/as/as.htm
Pompeii is famous for a volcano named Mt. Vesuvius. The eruptions of Mt. Vesuvius took the lives of many people that lived in Pompeii during the year AD 79.
Mount Vesuvius is still active today, in fact, it's the only active volcano on the European mainland. It's last eruption was 1944. ^-^
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/penny101/info.html
when mt. vesuvius erupted all the ashes mixed with the water and formed mold that would cover the dead bodys and everything else.
The mountain has errupted more than 50 times since the eruption in 79 A.D.
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/volcanoes/vmtvesuvius.html
Vesuvius is a volcano located in the Bay of Naples, its next eruption could very well happen this century.
http://www.westnet.com/~dobran/
The most popular and best preserved building in Pompeii is the House of the Vettii=]]
http://www.voyageurtours.com/eol/results.php?country=italy&city=pompeii&attraction=pompeii
Mt. Vesuvius is 4200 ft. tall and located on the southern side of Italy. (Freshman hall is named after Mt. Vesuvius)
http://www.answers.com/topic/mount-vesuvius
(ya'll take the good comments)
Pompeii was first occupied in the 8th century BC.
-http://touritaly.org/pompeii/pompeii-main.htm
Pompeii has over 2.5 million visitors a year
Pompeii was buried under ash and pumice.The city was lost for almost 1700 years, when it was accidentally rediscovered in 1748.How interesting(wink, wink):Peace
The great eruption of 1631 is the largest explosive eruption of Mt. Vesuvius since those of 472 and 512 AD.
http://www.vesuvioinrete.it/e_storia.htm
when mount vesuvius erupted and buried pompeii more ash was blown into the somethingshere(lol) then when mount st helens erupted back in 1980
The population in Vesuvius has increased since the last eruption in 1944. :]
http://www.earthscape.org/t1/beb01/
Guess how a TEENAGER was involved in this event? At 17 years old, Pliny the Younger (who grew up to be a lawyer, author, and philosopher), was wathing from across the bay as Mt. Vesuvious erupted in 79 B.C.. He wrote what he saw in a couple of letters to a historian named Tacitus. Pliny the Younger's letters are the ONLY surviving, reliable eyewitness account of the event [moral of the story...learn to write, children ;) ]
p.s.- I forgot; my source is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Vesuvius#The_Two_Plinys
Maria Goodfellow
Pompeii was beggining to be discovered in 1748, by two archaeologists, it was covered by about 9 feet of ash.
Whoops! My source was: http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/pompeii/history/history.html
The rocks at Vesuvius are called tephrite. A tephrite is basaltic in character and contains the following minerals: calcic plagioclase, augite, and nepheline or leucite
http://www.geocities.com/vesuvius79ad/
In 1860, Giuseppe Fiorelli served as director of the excavation after
the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Source:
http://www.ict.mic.ul.ie/2003/kmcevoy/site/excavations.htm
Pompeii was destroyed and completly buried after Mt. Vesuvius erupted. Mudd and ash created a cement like substance that froze people during their daily activities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii
MT. Vesuvio's eruption in 79 AD is though to have lasted 19 hours and realease about 1 cubic mile of ash over a wide area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Vesuvius
One theory on how Mount Vesuvius go its name is from Heracles the son of the Greek god Zeus
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Vesuvius#Origin_of_the_name
mount vesuvious is an active volcano east of napales italy.
The poet Papinius Statius (40- 96 AD) made many references to the ruins caused by Vesuvius in his collection of poems "Silvae". The poet lived in Naples for long time and was possibly there during the eruption, as he got a poetry premium in the town in 78 or 80 AD. Soon after he left and lived in Rome until 92. On that date he had to write a poem (Silvae III, 5) "Ad Claudiam Uxorem" to convince his wife to come back to Naples (Paratore, 1992).
Mount Vesuvius erupted more then 50times in 79A.D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesuvius
there were findings that arceologists found: a dog was some drinking glasses, and Pompeii is and ancient city in Itlay in the Campania region
The absolute location of Pompeii is 41 degrees North, and 15 degrees East of the equator.
http://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/00_01/FP/pom/pom.htm
Mount Vesuvius lies at the boundary convergent to the African plate and the Eurasian plate.
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/facts-about-mount-vesuvius.html
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