Mount Vesuvius

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Mount Vesuvius is a volcano near the Bay of Naples and in hundreds of thousands of years it has erupted more than 50 times. Its most famous eruption took place in the year 79 A.D., when the volcano buried the ancient Roman city of Pompeii under a thick carpet of volcanic ash. Two thousand people died, and the city was abandoned for almost as many years. A group of explorers rediscovered the site in 1748 and they were very surprised, because the city of Pompeii was mostly intact.