Pompeii / Connolly, Peter

Describes the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii in 79 A.D. and the rediscovery and subsequent excavation of this buried city.

The violent eruption of Mount Vesuvius on August 24 A.D. 79 entombed thousands of people in the city of Pompeii. Everyday life in Pompeii is reconstructed in this book.