To: combjelly who wrote (444472 ) 1/3/2009 6:16:12 PM From: tejek Respond to The first sign of the tragedy of Pompeji is the earthquake of 62 n. Chr. The city suffered as many other into the Campania heavy damage. When the danger of a repetition was that past ground electrode container run gene, one began with lively building and re-establishment work on the temples, public and private buildings. The city was enriched by new herrschaftliche houses, by workshops and Botteghen and contributed thereby to the economic, commercial and industrial development. Seventeen years later however, on 24 August 79 n. Chr. shortly after 12 o'clock at noon, broke the enormous misfortune in here: The Vesuv buried literally spoken the city (together with Stabiae and Herculaneum) under a layer of ashes, lava and other eruptivem rock with a layer from six to seven meters height. Nearly nobody could save itself. A large part of the inhabitants, today on approximately twenty thousand souls estimated, suffocated on the roads to be able to escape in the houses or cellars, where some had taken refuge one, in hope, thereby the poisonous gases of the destructive force. Of this schauerlichen fight to today certifications in the form of gypsum castings remained to us. One filled the cavities, which left the bodies in the stone. Of the base Miseno hurried Plinius the older one with a fleet the Pompejanern to assistance, who except its outstanding Fähigkeitt as an admiral in addition praise itself could to be an excellent scientist of the nature phenomena. In addition, it could not make no more than this rühmlichen human and scientific attempt, it found only death. What we know of the outbreak, was delivered us by its grandchild Plinius to the younger in two dramatic letters at Tacitus.
