The city of
Pompeii, along with
Herculaneum and many smaller places along the Bay of
Naples were
Roman municipalities destroyed during an eruption of [Mount Vesuvius]
? during an eruption in AD
79. The eruption was described by [Pliny the Younger]
?, whose uncle [Pliny the Elder]
? died after making several trips across the bay with a flotilla of pleasure craft and fishing boats to save some of those trapped in sea-side towns.
Stub article
![[Home]](wikipedia.png)