In the year 79 AD, the ancient seaside city of Pompeii was buried beneath a mountain of volcanic ash and pumice when nearby volcano Mount Vesuvius furiously erupted. More than two thousand of Pompeii's citizens lost their lives. For almost 1,700 years, until its rediscovery in 1748, Pompeii lay hidden - a city and its people suspended in time. Now we can see the streets and buildings almost as they were on the day Pompeii died- an incredible snapshot...

This book tells the history of the city of Pompeii, a city that has been buried under volcanic ash since 79 A.D.

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

Take a step back in time with the Ancient Cities series. Each title in this series takes readers on a tour of a city that was once a thriving metropolis. They will learn how the city came to be, how it evolved over time, and what caused its decline.

The Forum, Pompeii - Art, Greco - Works of art, Pompeii.

Explores the social, political, cultural, and religious life in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, destroyed in a volcanic eruption in 79 A.D. and not rediscovered until the late seventeenth century.

Looks at the history and culture of various ancient civilizations and extinct cities.

"The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and the subsequent destruction of the thriving Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum are historic disasters of monumental proportions, resonating across millennia and remembered to this very day. Now Dr. Charles Pellegrino takes us back to the final days of an extraordinary civilization to experience an earth-shattering catastrophe with remarkable and unsettling ties to the unthinkable disaster of September...

Describes the life and people of Pompeii, a city in southern Italy destroyed during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.