In AD 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted in one of the most catastrophic and infamous eruptions in history. Mount Vesuvius spewed a deadly cloud of volcanic gas, stones, ash and fumes; ejecting molten rock and pulverized pumice at the rate of 1.5 million tons per second, ultimately releasing a hundred thousand times the thermal energy of the Hiroshima bombing. The ancient, Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum were obliterated. Pompeii was buried so quickly beneath the volcanic ash making it a well preserved snapshot into life in a Roman city.
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