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Saturday, August 25, 2012

The last XXIV hours of Pompeii retold on Twitter: Catastrophe relived (almost) exactly 1,933 years after eruption of Vesuvius

The last XXIV hours of Pompeii retold on Twitter: Catastrophe relived (almost) exactly 1,933 years after eruption of Vesuvius | Mail Online: "The final 24 hours of the Roman city of Pompeii are being relived on Twitter today - exactly 1,933 years after an eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried the city beneath a blanket of ash.

Cataclysmic: The eruption of Vesuvius as imagined by BBC documentary Pompeii: The Last Day. The volcano erupted in 79AD burying the city totally beneath 20ft of ash

The minute-by-minute reconstruction of the city's destruction is based on the tale of Pliny the Elder, the Roman scholar and admiral who took command of the city's evacuation."

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