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Apr 24, 2024 · Pompeii, Italy, designated a World Heritage site in 1997. Pompeii, preserved ancient Roman city in Campania, Italy, 14 miles (23 km) southeast of Naples, at the southeastern base of Mount Vesuvius. Around noon on August 24, 79 ce, a huge eruption from Mount Vesuvius showered volcanic debris over the city of Pompeii, followed the next day by ...
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Mar 9, 2020 · by Les Hewitt March 9, 2020. 1. Pompeii is located in the Campania region of Southern Italy, just east of Naples. It is now synonymous with the devastating disaster of 79 CE when the nearby volcano, Mount Vesuvius, erupted violently. However, the history of Pompeii as a lavish trade town dates many years back to the 8th century BCE.
Archaeologists are investigating the remains of Pompeii, a city frozen in time. On a fateful summer morning in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius buried the vibrant Roman city of Pompeii—and many of its ...
Sep 5, 2018 · It has also been found that their DNA only has 3% ancient ancestry which links them with the Eastern Mediterranean (also known as the Middle East) – namely Israel, Lebanon, parts of Syria, and western Jordan. This is the part of the world Jewish people are said to have originally come from – according to the Old Testament.
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A computer-generated depiction of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E. which buried Pompeii, from the Discovery Channel's Pompeii: The Last Day. Pompeii is a ruined city of Roman Empire near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the commune of Pompeii. It was destroyed during a catastrophic eruption of the ...
POMPEII Italy. A city on the end of a lava stream thrown out S-SE from Vesuvius and overlooking the sea just NE of the mouth of the Sarnus (Sarno). It was called Pompaia by Strabo, and the Sullan colony bore the name Colonia Veneria Cornelia Pompeianorum. In its last century (destroyed A.D. 79) it was the port and chief city of the S half of ...
