This Day in History - Aug 24st Starring - Vesuvius

On August 24, 79 A.D. Mount Vesuvius erupts in southern Italy, turning skies to darkness over the city of Pompeii. “You could hear the shreiks of women forever“ wrote the younger Pliny. “Cries of children and shouts of men, some praying to die from the very fear of dying. Many lifted their hands to the Gods, imagining there were no Gods left anywhere and at last, an eternal night has come upon the world“. Roughly half the citizens blindly escaped towards the sea, but more than 2,000 were buried under 7 feet of lava, ash and pumice. 1,700 years later the excavation of Pompeii presented a picture of the everyday life an ancient civilization, so freshly preserved in sudden death, as almost to remain living forever. ?

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