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Pompeii was buried in a single day
When Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 it threw a 30 km column of ash into the sky, then collapsed into scorching surges that buried the city under metres of pumice within about 18 hours.
History
The famous Pompeii bodies are casts of empty space
The victims decayed, leaving hollow cavities in hardened ash. In 1863 archaeologists poured plaster into those voids, recreating the exact poses of people who died 1,800 years earlier.
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Pompeii preserved Roman graffiti
Thousands of messages survive scratched into its walls — election slogans, love notes, insults and bar tabs. It is the closest thing we have to ordinary Roman voices.