Pompeii
Publisher: PHOENIX (ORIO)
Published: May 4, 2006
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780753820766
First sentence: In July 1738, workmen digging the foundations of a summer palace for Charles of Bourbon, the King of Naples, discovered the first hard evidence of the cities that had been buried by Vesuvius in AD 79.