Simple History. Buried Alive - The 79 A.D. Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Posted: April 2, 2025 | Last updated: April 2, 2025. One moment, Pompeii was alive with trade and laughter.

Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year AD 79, burying the cities of Pompeii, Oplontis, and Stabiae under ashes and rock fragments, and the city of Herculaneum under a mudflow.

Pompeii is the little Roman town that became a byword for sudden, violent death. A new exhibition at the British Museum -- which opens Thursday and runs to Sept. 29 -- wants it to be equally ...

The day Vesuvius blew its top 03:35. People tend to know the story of Pompeii: the ancient Roman city buried under a thick blanket of volcanic rock; its people entombed in ash, frozen in time.

Herculaneum Uncovered follows geo-archaeologists as they unearth what life was like before the eruption, and how the volcano devastated the town in a very different manner to Pompeii.

In 79 C.E. Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the nearby cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in thick layers of volcanic ash. There was no time to suffocate; most died not from the poisonous gas but ...

The restored version of John Martin’s Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Illustration: John Martin On August 24 in 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting over three cubic miles of debris up ...

It's The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum, by artist John Martin (1789-1854), who as Britain's Tate Museum says was known for his paintings "of apocalyptic destruction and biblical disaster." ...

British artist John Martin's vast 1821 painting The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum nearly met its own end while stored at the Tate when the River Thames flooded in 1928.

Michael Glover is enthralled and moved by the eagerly awaited British Museum exhibition on the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Michael Glover. Tuesday 26 March 2013 12:41 GMT.

Archaeologists picking through latrines, sewers, cesspits and trash dumps at Pompeii and Herculaneum have found tantalizing clues to an apparently varied diet there before the eruption of Mount ...