Pompeii

Mount Vesuvius, a volcano near the Bay of Naples in Italy has erupted more than 50 times and with the most infamous eruption in 79 A.D. The volcano buried the ancient Roman city of Pompeii under a thick carpet of volcanic ash. The dust “poured across the land” like a flood and shrouded the city in darkness. Two thousand people died, and the city was abandoned for almost as many years till it was rediscovered in 1748 when explorers found that underneath a thick layer of dust and debris–Pompeii was mostly intact with the buildings, artifacts and skeletons left behind in the buried city.