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4 days ago · An unusually quiet side street in Pompeii, photo by author, Eleanor Clark, 2023 In October 79 CE, 2000 Pompeiians lost their lives and a city that once covered 160 acres vanished under a blanket of ash and debris. A terrifying eruption from Mount Vesuvius, the volcano that towers above the Bay of Naples, buried the city, leaving it aban
1 day ago · Pompeii was a community of about 30,000 people that hosted thriving industry and active political and financial networks. ... This Volcano Won't Stop Erupting | Untold Earth. 10:03.
10 hours ago · The country is a hotbed of volcanic activity, and a larger threat could be brewing beneath the surface. ... which destroyed the city of Pompeii in 79 A.D. Now scientists are worried an even bigger ...
3 days ago · Artistic reconstruction of two species of trilobite an instant before burial in a flow of volcanic ash 510 million years ago. Credit: Prof. A. El Albani, Univ. Poitiers Researchers have discovered exceptionally preserved “Pompeii” trilobite fossils in Morocco, providing new insights into the anatomy and preservation of these ancient ...
6 days ago · Pompeii is well known as a city that was decimated by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. The city, first discovered in the 1700s under the control of the Bourbon Monarchy, was left frozen during its worst catastrophe.
2 days ago · It was an eruption so powerful that it obliterated the volcano itself, leaving a crater 80 kilometers (50 miles) wide and spewing clouds of ash that the wind carried over long distances, killing ...
1 day ago · John Paterson, University of New England If you’ve ever visited the fossil gallery of a natural history museum — or its gift shop, for that matter — you’ve probably seen the armoured body remains (or exoskeletons) of an extinct group of animals called trilobites. These ancient marine arthropods lived in the world’s oceans from 521
