Destruction of Pompeii - AJ

• The destruction of Pompeii was caused by the big eruption of mount Vesuvius 79 AD and was tragic.  
• In Pompeii the people had not known that mount Vesuvius was ever a volcano and it also didn't erupt in approximately 1800 years! The estimated amount of the population that had died from the initial blast, but about 15,000 to 20,000 people had died flow of lava. The actual initial blast didn't cause as much damage as the flow of the lava that had spread through most of the city.
• Pompeii was so well preserved because of all the volcano ash that buried it very well and it could now be used for the Roman city  snapshots of their history. 
• Once the city was buried with Volcano ash it was very difficult to discover, but in 1748 the workers of King Charles the third had stumbled upon. At the height of 1,281 meters and at  the estimated age 17,000 years old and it has erupted over 50 times.
• Mount Vesuvius erupted six times in the 18th century, eight times in the 19th century  and in 1906, 1929 and 1944. There has been no eruption since 1944!!!