The once buried Roman city of Pompeii south of Naples under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius near Naples in Italy

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Ruins in the once buried city of Pompeii Italy visited by millions of people every year. It was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79. Pompeii in Italy was buried by falling rocks instead of being engulfed in boiling mud like Herculaneum in the eruption of Vesuvius. In Pompeii it is easy to visualize how life was lived there before the night of the 24th of August when the sleeping volcano erupted

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Location: Pompeii Archaeological Park, Via Villa dei Misteri, Pompeii, Metropolitan City of Naples, Italy
Photo credit: © Brenda Kean / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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