Showing posts with label AD 79. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AD 79. Show all posts

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Obliteration-Krakatoa/1863/36,000 Killed-Vesuvius/Pompeii/AD79/16000 Killed

Absolute, stunning obliteration!  Pompeii and its neighbor Herculaneum were eventually forgotten in time before being rediscovered in the 18th century.  Roughly 400 bodies have been found.  And about 1000 casts made from the impressions of bodies in the ash deposits have been recovered.