Pompeii

[pom-pey, -pey-ee]

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an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: it was buried along with Herculaneum by an eruption of nearby Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; much of the city has been excavated.

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noun

an ancient city in Italy, southeast of Naples: buried by an eruption of Vesuvius (79 _ad ); excavation of the site, which is extremely well preserved, began in 1748

Pompeii

A city of the Roman Empire, on the Italian seacoast, that was known for the luxury and dissipated ways of its citizens. It was destroyed in the first century by an eruption of nearby Mount Vesuvius.

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Vesuvius blew in 79 AD, it wiped out the ancient Roman city of Pompeii; when Mt.

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After lying hidden beneath metres of volcanic rock and ash for 2,000 years, a "once-in-a-century" find has been unearthed in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in Italy.

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The temperature of the pyroclastic flows that buried Herculaneum and Pompeii was several hundreds of degrees Celsius, hot enough to easily burn and destroy soft tissue.

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The massive eruption of Vesuvius engulfed Herculaneum and nearby Pompeii where up to 20,000 people lived.

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Dan, who created the video of Pompeii, says he recognises a lots of details in his videos are historically inaccurate.

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