History & Heritage

Pompeii Under the Ash

The story of how the Roman city of Pompeii was buried and later rediscovered.

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1Pompeii was a busy Roman city near the mountain Vesuvius.

2One morning in the year seventy-nine, the mountain suddenly exploded.

3Hot ash fell on the streets and covered the whole city.

4Thousands of people could not escape and died that day.

5For many centuries, the city slept under the grey ash.

6Local farmers found old stone walls when they dug their fields.

7In the seventeen hundreds, workers started to dig the city out.

8They found houses, shops, paintings, and even loaves of bread.

9The ash had kept everything safe, like a photograph in stone.

10Today, millions of tourists walk through its ancient streets every year.

11Pompeii shows us exactly how Romans lived two thousand years ago.

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