The two cities on Italy's southern coast were buried following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79.
Society ignoring our reliance on oil is like the people of Pompeii ignoring the rumblings below Vesuvius.
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He wished to look into Pichincha's crater, just as on an earlier journey he had descended into Vesuvius.
At the time, the Italians blamed the cost of reconstruction following an eruption of Vesuvius that had devastated Naples.
In 1908 London rescued the Olympics after Mount Vesuvius volcano erupted, causing the selected city of Rome to pull out.
It has active volcanoes, such as Etna and Vesuvius, few plains, lots of mountains and a flurry of fast-flowing rivers.
Each year, 2.5 million tourists visit the ancient city, which was buried under ash after Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD.
And dead ahead is the gaping cone of Vesuvius, long tongues of lava from the last eruption (1944) visible even from here.
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Preserved like Pompeiians entombed by the eruption of Vesuvius are quotes and charts in call options that show the devastation that occurred just before the halt.
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Classicists at Oxford first deployed the technique in 1999, to examine papyri discovered in a villa that was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD.
In 2008, the country declared a state of emergency at the site of the ancient Roman city buried by an eruption of the Vesuvius volcano in AD 79.
In due course this error brings our hero to a point where, if he manages to survive the sulphurous oxide and violent sandstorms of Vesuvius, he will almost certainly be murdered.
Vesuvius, as you see in the photo above.
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Rome was set to host the 1908 Olympics when Mount Vesuvius erupted two years prior, forcing the city to forgo the Games due to the cost of rebuilding (although some historians speculate that Italy was struggling to fund the event even before the volcano erupted).
The Archaeological Areas of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata, contains the vestiges of two flourishing cities and numerous villas that were engulfed in ashes and lava when Mount Vesuvius erupted on 24 August 79 AD, leaving the site buried until the beginning of excavations started in the middle of 18th centuries.
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