(CNN) — An ancient beach that was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago has reopened to the public after restoration works. The beach at the Herculaneum archaeological ...
On Aug. 24, in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting over 3 cubic miles of debris up to 20 miles (32.1 kilometers) in the air. As the ash and rock fell to Earth, it buried the ancient cities of ...
Centuries on and it turns out that long-held assumptions about some of the people of Pompeii should not have been set in stone. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...