Original sentence: For the past five centuries, articles about the eruption of Vesuvius have typically said that the eruption began on August 24 of 79 AD.In October 2018, Italian archaeologists uncovered a charcoal inscription dated October 17 (of 79 AD as it was unlikely to have been a year old) which sets the earliest possible date for the eruption.In the autumn of 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius violently spewed forth a deadly cloud of super-heated tephra and gases to a height of , ejecting molten rock, pulverized pumice and hot ash at 1.5 million tons per second, ultimately releasing 100,000 times the thermal energy of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Edited sentence: For the past five centuries, articles about the eruption of Vesuvius have typically (but incorrectly) said that the eruption began on August 24 of 79 AD.In October 2018, Italian archaeologists uncovered a charcoal inscription dated October 17 (of 79 AD as it was unlikely to have been a year old) which correctly sets the earliest possible date for the eruption to no earlier than October 17, 79 AD.In late October of 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius violently spewed forth a deadly cloud of super-heated tephra and gases to a height of , ejecting molten rock, pulverized pumice and hot ash at 1.5 million tons per second, ultimately releasing 100,000 times the thermal energy of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki