Vesuvius 79

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In 79 CE Vesuvius buried Pompeii and Herculaneum under ash and stone in a single day. Pliny the Younger, watching from across the bay, wrote the first clear eyewitness account of an eruption — while his uncle Pliny the Elder died going to the rescue. A city stopped in an afternoon, and the first science of the volcano. — history