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  2. Herculaneum - Wikipedia

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    Herculaneum [a] is an ancient Roman town located in the modern-day comune of Ercolano, Campania, Italy.Herculaneum was buried under a massive pyroclastic flow in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

  3. Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD - Wikipedia

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    The collapse of the edges of these clouds generated the first dilute PDCs, which must have been devastating to Herculaneum, but did not enter Pompeii. Early in the second morning, the grey cloud began to collapse to a greater degree. Two major surges struck and destroyed Pompeii. Herculaneum and all its population no longer existed.

  4. Geologic Calendar - Wikipedia

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    The Geologic Calendar is a scale in which the geological timespan of the Earth is mapped onto a calendrical year; that is to say, the day one of the Earth took place on a geologic January 1 at precisely midnight, and today's date and time is December 31 at midnight. [1]

  5. Ancient beach destroyed by Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79AD ...

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    The most important discovery at Herculaneum was that of the “last fugitive” which occurred in 2021: a skeleton of a man of around 40 years of age who was probably trying to escape towards the ...

  6. Darian calendar - Wikipedia

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    The basic time periods from which the calendar is constructed are the Martian solar day (sometimes called a sol) and the Martian vernal equinox year.The sol is 39 minutes 35.244 seconds longer than the Terrestrial solar day, and the Martian vernal equinox year is 668.5907 sols in length (which corresponds to 686.9711 days on Earth).

  7. Cosmic Calendar - Wikipedia

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    A graphical view of the Cosmic Calendar, featuring the months of the year, days of December, the final minute, and the final second. The Cosmic Calendar is a method to visualize the chronology of the universe, scaling its currently understood age of 13.8 billion years to a single year in order to help intuit it for pedagogical purposes in science education or popular science.

  8. After 2,000 years of mystery, secrets of the Herculaneum ...

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    Buried in ash after Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79AD, the secret of a papyrus scroll kept their secrets hidden for centuries. Now one has been deciphered by AI.

  9. Ides of March - Wikipedia

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    The Romans did not number each day of a month from the first to the last day. Instead, they counted back from three fixed points of the month: the Nones (the 5th or 7th, eight days before the Ides), the Ides (the 13th for most months, but the 15th in March, May, July, and October), and the Kalends (1st of the following month).