Pompeii - Intro, Name and Geography
Channel: The Storyteller
Date: 2020-05-14

Pompeii - Intro, Name and Geography
Hello! I am the story teller... and today we will talk about Pompeii. Pompeii  was an ancient city located in the modern comune of Pompei near Naples in the Campania region of Italy. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area , was buried under 4 to 6 m  of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Largely preserved under the ash, the excavated city offered a unique snapshot of Roman life, frozen at the moment it was buried, and an extraordinarily detailed insight into the everyday life of its inhabitants, although much of the evidence was lost in the early excavations.


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* Text taken from the English Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii
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