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24Aug

News from the Past

DateSunday, August 24, 2008 at 10:00 AuthorZoy Clem in | CommentPost a Comment

On this date in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, destroying a number of towns including Pompeii and Heculaneum:


Here are a couple of videos showing the ruins from those two sites, the first depicting Pompeii...


...followed by a clip of Herculaneum...


The volcano is till active, its last eruption in 1944:


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