Rome

Pompeii was once a thriving sophistacated Roman city. But, in the dead of night in late August in 79 AD, Mt. Vesuvius erupted, covering the entire city in burning ash.  The citizens of Pompeii had no chance of surviving. Over 2,000 people died. After the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, the once very successful city of Pompeii was abandoned. Pompeii remained mostly abandoned until 1748, when a group of explorers that were looking for ancient artifacts began digging in Campania. Underneath all of the dust and ash that had covered the city in 79 AD, the explorers found the city of Pompeii, looking exactly the same as it did 2,000 years earlier. The buildigs and even the skeletons were still intact, like nothing had happenned. Archeologists even found preserved jars of fruit and loaves of bread. The excavation of Pompeii has been going on for 300 years and is still going on today. Scholars and tourists are still just as amazed by Pompeii's eerie ruins as they were in the 1800s.