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Pompeii (/ p ɒ m ˈ p eɪ (i)/ ⓘ pom-PAY(-ee), Latin: [pɔmˈpei̯.iː]) was a city in what is now the municipality of Pompei, near Naples, in the Campania region of Italy.Along with Herculaneum, Stabiae, and many surrounding villas, the city was buried under 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft) of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
It is also said that the poet Caesius Bassus died in the eruption. [43] By 2003, approximately 1,044 casts made from impressions of bodies in the ash deposits had been recovered in and around Pompeii, with the scattered bones of another 100. [44]
Historians say 2,000 people died in Pompeii alone, with the overall toll suspected to be closer to 16,000 when deaths from surrounding towns are considered.
Human death toll Volcano VEI Location Year Eruption Source(s) 71,000 to 250,100+ Mount Tambora: 7 Indonesia: 1815 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora, Year Without a Summer: 36,000+
More than 1,000 people are thought to have died in the eruption, though the exact toll is unknown. The only surviving witness account consists of two letters by Pliny the Younger to the historian Tacitus. [7] Vesuvius has erupted many times since. It is the only volcano on Europe's mainland to have erupted in the last hundred years.
A picture made available Tuesday, May 16, 2023, by the Pompeii Archeological Park press office, showing two skeletons that archeologists believe were men who died when a wall collapsed on them ...
Some of the victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D. in Pompeii were cast in plaster to preserve the scene. New DNA studies of those victims tell a different tale than what experts had ...
The Garden of the Fugitives (Italian: Orto dei Fuggiaschi) [1] is an archaeological site located in the ancient destroyed city of Pompeii, in Regio 1 Insula 21. [2] [3] It contains the casts of 13 victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. [4]