When did Vesuvius erupt and bury Pompeii?

Vesuvius buries Pompeii

L'eruzione del Vesuvio

79. In AD 79 Vesuvius erupted and buried Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae under ash, stones and hot gas.

Where: Italy

What happened

In AD 79 Vesuvius erupted and buried Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae under ash, stones and hot gas. Pliny the Younger watched from across the bay and later described the cloud, shaped like a pine tree, in two letters to the historian Tacitus; his uncle, Pliny the Elder, died at Stabiae trying to rescue people. The date long given was 24 August, from the manuscripts of those letters, but a charcoal inscription found at Pompeii in 2018, dated mid-October, has convinced most scholars that the eruption came in the autumn, probably on 24 October. Excavations began in the eighteenth century and still go on.

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Il Vesuvio ha sepolto Pompei sotto la cenere.

Vesuvius buried Pompeii under the ash.

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