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The Romans living in Pompeii in AD 79 were utterly unprepared for the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which buried the city in ash -- and preserved it almost untouched for 1,700 years. In A Day at ...

T he devastation of prosperous, unsuspecting Pompeii in a.d. 79 is the stuff of pathos. Vesuvius spared nothing and no one. Pliny the Younger’s blow-by-blow account is definitive.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The ancient Roman city of Pompeii is brought up from the ashes as Discovery Place introduces its newest exhibition, "A Day in Pompeii," Friday, July 11. The ...

Spread over 44 sq km, Pompeii, was declared a UNESCO world heritage site in 1997. It provides a picture of an ancient Roman city with its historic buildings, artefacts as well as human remains.

The eruption in 79 A.D. actually took place over two days, giving Pompeii residents roughly a day to escape but still killing over 1,000 people.

August 24, A.D. 79, was a normal day in Pompeii. People cooked their meals, worked at the seaport, relaxed in the public baths, prayed to their gods, and performed the normal tasks of 25,000 ...

An exhibition at Philadelphia's Franklin Institute breathes life into August 24, 79 A.D. in Pompeii. It began as a sunny summer day and within 24 hours, everyone was dead.

OK, maybe it was nearly, 2,000 years ago, but the new exhibit at the Franklin Institute, ‘One Day in Pompeii,’ does try to give you a taste of what it can be like.