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. Mount Vesuvius ...
HISTORIANS have mapped out a minute-by-minute account of the final moments of Pompeii - as gas and ash ... Mount Vesuvius began to erupt on August 24 in AD 79 at around noon.