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pompeii
- Pompeii was
a city in Italy
- Mount vesuvius is a volcano in Italy
- It had very fertile
soil and is great for
growing crops
- pompeii was a very wealthy trading city
- In AD 62 the city of Pompeii
grounds shook and in AD 79 all
of the wells went dry but yet
people were not scared
- Very sadly on the 24th of
August the famous
volcano Mount Vesuvius
had erupted
- It had continued to
erupt for over 24 hours
it was firing hot ash
into the air
- when the ash
had cooled
everything in
Pompeii had
disappeared
- The city of Pompeii was hidden for around 1700 years until
in 1748 a man was digging in his garden and found a wall
from Pompeii
- they had quiet an advanced water system in Pompeii
- It came from a local river
- The streets were paved
with flagstones in
Pompeii on each side of
streets
- The Forum was the centre
of activity in Pompeii there
was a number of temples to
hounder the gods
- It had advanced
marketplaces with
shops that sold lots of
goods
- Pieces of jewellery
and pottery have been
found in the city
- Archaeologists found hollow
shapes in the ground and they
realised that these were the shapes of bodies