Mount Vesuvius, a volcano in modern-day, erupted in 79 AD in one of the most catastrophic volcanic eruptions in European history.


Spewing forth a deadly cloud of tephra and gases to a height of 33 kilometres (21 mi), ejecting molten rock, pulverized pumice and hot ash at the rate of 1.5 million tons per second, ultimately releasing 100,000 times the thermal energy of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombings.

Several Roman settlements were obliterated and buried underneath massive pyroclastic surges and ashfall deposits.



Those that did not flee the city of Pompeii in August of 79 AD were doomed.

Buried for 2,000 years under 30 feet of mud and ash and reduced by the centuries to skeletons, they remained entombed until excavations took place in the early 19th century.

As excavators continued to uncover human remains, they noticed that the skeletons were surrounded by voids in the compacted ash.


Some of the plaster-encased bodies of victims who were buried by the ashes as they attempted to flee Pompeii during the 79 AD eruption of the Vesuvius volcano.








http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2015/03/12/plaster_casts_of_victims_bodies_at_pompeii_in_italy.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3089659/Who-petrified-child-Pompeii-Restoration-work-begins-body-boy-House-Golden-Bracelet.html
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So this Pompeii is a true life story

Worris this?

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Their last days began on Aug. 24, 79 AD, the day after the Roman holiday of Volcanalia, dedicated to the god of fire.

At noon Mount Vesuvius roared to life, spewing ash hundreds of feet into the air for 18hours straight.

The choking ash rained down on the cities in the surrounding countryside, filling courtyards, blocking doors, and collapsing roofs.

In the only known eyewitness account to the eruption, Pliny the Younger reported on his uncle’s ill-fated foray into the thick of the ash from Misenum, on the north end of the bay:...


The buildings were now shaking with violent shocks, and seemed to be swaying to and fro as if they were torn from their foundations.

Outside, on the other hand, there was the danger of failing pumice stones.

And then: “You could hear the shrieks of women, the wailing of infants, and the shouting of men; some were calling their parents, others their children or their wives, trying to recognize them by their voices.

People bewailed their own fate or that of their relatives, and there were some who prayed for death in their terror of dying. Many besought the aid of the gods, but still more imagined there were no gods left, and that the universe was plunged intoeternal darkness for evermore.”

The next morning the cone of the volcano collapsed, triggering a hundred-mile-an-hour avalanche of mud and ash that flooded Pompeii, just a little over 5 miles away, destroying everythingin its path.
Mynd44

This haunting image shows what appears to be a child resting on the stomach of an adult.


The Orto dei fuggiaschi (The garden of the Fugitives)shows the13 bodies of victims who were buried by the ashes as they attempted to flee Pompeii during the 79 AD eruption of the Vesuvius volcano.


The tragic skeleton of a man who died during the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago has been found in Pompeii.


The 35-year-old man was seemingly beheaded by a falling rock as he tried to escape the eruption.



It is estimated that anywhere between 20,000 and 30, 000 residents of Pompeii and nearby Herculaneum were killed on the spot.



https://www.nairaland.com/4543021/shocking-photos-guatemala-volcanic-eruption

Lalasticlala

The boy (whose cast is pictured in the foreground) was discovered alongside an adult male and female, presumed to be his parents, as well as a younger child who appeared to be asleep on his mother's lap.

Mount Vesuvius unleashed its power in 79AD by spewing ash hundreds of feet into the air for 18 hours, which fell onto the doomed town, choking residents and covering buildings.

People were buried in the ash, which hardened to form a porous shell, meaning that the soft tissues of the bodies decayed, leaving the skeleton in a void

Here, a researcher prepares to break a plaster cast to look at the human remains encased inside it

About three-quarters of Pompeii’s 165 acres have been excavated, and some 1,150 bodies have been discovered.


This victim looks as if they are praying, or holding their face in their hand possibly out of fear.

It's possible some of those people refused to flee the city with the hopes that they'd take over other people's property after they had gone.

Well done Explorers


More power to your elbow

Ancient remains of a horse that died 2,000 years ago (pictured) in the inferno that obliterated Pompeii have been discovered.

CT scan of victims.

Its explorer the legendary thread producer.
I feel you baba!

Or that their gods would save them, pity they didn't

thesicilian:
It's possible some of those people refused to flee the city with the hopes that they'd take over other people's property after they had gone.

Well, its easier to do a CT scan on stones, they're forever immobile

Explorers:
CT scan of victims.

timwudz:
Worris this?


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Which thread. .... Explorers thread abi We are going ahead ahead

Wow it’s explorers again! Very educative piece, I always knew Pompei was a true life story, even in the movie it was stated, but I never got to find out about the true story... thanks for the wonderful and insightful piece bro.

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skarlett:
Or that their gods would save them, pity they didn't

Yeah, many must have believed that.

This reminds me of that classic and horrific movie "pompie" featuring Got star Jon Snow (kit Harrington)..
but explorers you didn't shows us the picture of the ashes of two lovers kissing each other ?

It's explorers again...

Wow. I watched the movie Pompeii and I never thought it'd be this real. Thanks for this informative piece Explorers.

Bigtotoboi:
Wow. I watched the movie Pompeii and I never thought it'd be this real. Thanks for this informative piece Explorers.

It happened bro.

They should bury them, and let them lay in peace, all this archeologist sef...!!!

Something of this nature happened in sodom and gomorah. The ancient isrealites interpreted it to be wrath from God

Make una donate accolades give explorers abeg

Dis guy even dey try pass Nigerian govt

learning from history....

Bigtotoboi:
Wow. I watched the movie Pompeii and I never thought it'd be this real. Thanks for this informative piece Explorers.

That movie depicated the authenticity of the disaster.

One of the disadvantages of living beside mountains.

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