Pompeii: The Forgotten City
By Chelsey
It was a horrible day in Pompeii. On 79 A.D., Mt. Vesuvius blew
its top! Ash poured out of the volcano and while spitting out rocks
and poisonous gas! Many people of Pompeii had gotten covered in
ashes and died. About 3,360 people died that day!
Pompeii was also known for its amazing murals and mosaics
usually made from chips of rocks. Mosaics were put in dinning rooms
and entryways to the houses.
Pompeii was called the Forgotten City because no one found
the city until the mid-nineteenth century. When they found the city of
Pompeii, they found shapes of humans and animals in the ground.
They poured plaster into the shapes and figures and victims
appeared.
Today all we can see of Pompeii are ruins. The ruins tell us
many things about the ancient city. The disaster that destroyed the
city of Pompeii in 79 A.D. Careful excavation and exploration of the
ruins continues today. Right at this very second, they are uncovering
a piece of Pompeii.
Bibliography
http://touritaly.org/pompeii/pompeii-main.htm
Bowersock, G.S. The Rediscovery of Herculaneum and Pompeii. New
York: The American Scholar. 1980.