Pompeii Ruins
In a very short amount of time the entire city was covered by an avalanche of volcanic rock and ash and thousands of people perished. The city was discovered once again in the early 18th century and has been in excavation ever since. The victims of Mt. Vesuvius’s eruption were entombed in fiery ash and many centuries later it was discovered that if workers poured plaster into cavities in the earth, an exact replica of a person…
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