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Buried City

  • June 26, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Mount Vesuvius destroyed the Roman town of Pompeii in 79 AD, not with fiery lava but with a column of dust, ashes, and rocks blasted high into the sky by super-hot gases. When the debris fell back to Earth, it buried the whole place.

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