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Pompeii

Pompeii
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About Pompeii

Pompeii was a city in what is now the municipality of Pompei, near Naples, in the Campania region of Italy. Along with Herculaneum, Stabiae, and many surrounding villas, it was buried under 4 to 6 m of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

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The bodies at Pompeii are plaster casts, made after someone realised a hole in the ground was a person-shaped hole left by a victim.

from 312: No Such Thing As Quentin Tarantino's Bambi · read transcript

More facts about Pompeii

  1. Pompeii's ancient drainage system runs about 450 metres and is big enough for a human to crawl along.

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Coordinates: 40.7497, 14.4868

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