The ruined city of Pompeii is in which country?

Exciting new discoveries still happening there as they continue to excavate. One was reported just yesterday! Beautifully preserved murals.

I knew this because I saw the pink Floyd film live at Pompeii

I knew this because I’ve been there , such an amazing place to visit

tunegrabber, I knew it through my History class .

many of the people heard the rumblings and fled the city while others thought it would just go away by itself.

a good refreshment of our history classes

Herculaneum is the other Roman city being uncovered by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 Common Era. Archeologists are uncovering more every day.

I am learning about poppies at school

Sometimes Mother Nature can be a real witch. The finest accounting of this Hellish tragedy that I have ever rear was in Sir Edward Bullwer-Litton's The Last Days of Pompeii. Granted, it's fiction, but the physical aspects are close if not spot on, but the humanity in the fiction is rivitting