POMPEII, ITALY—It has traditionally been accepted by most scholars that the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed the southern Italian city of Pompeii and many of its neighbors happened on ...

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Officials at the dangerously beloved Archaeological Park of Pompeii are sticking by Pliny the Younger’s date for the eruption of Mount Vesuvius ... over ten months after the Plinian date ...

Mount Vesuvius is perhaps the most famous volcano in the world. Known for its catastrophic eruption in 79 AD that buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum under volcanic ash, Vesuvius is ...

Scientists have solved the 200-year-old mystery of the location of a massive volcanic eruption that spewed such a large ...

which fell victim to one of Mount Vesuvius' eruptions in A.D. 79, is a UNESCO World Heritage city that was preserved by the volcano's ash. It was not rediscovered until 1748. According to many ...

The remains of Roman Pompeii, destroyed in 79 C.E. by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, are familiar across the globe ... Steve Ostrow joined BOLLI in 2019 after a half-century teaching Greek & Roman ...

A recent report from the Archaeological Park of Pompeii reignited the long-standing debate over the exact date of Mount ... to propose that the eruption occurred after this date.

The tragic story of Pompeii, the Roman city buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD ... reconstructions of the city before, during and after the eruption. Loading ...