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August 15, 2014

Pompeii: Visit to a dead city offers glimpses of everyday life

By MICHELLE LOCKE
Associated Press

POMPEII, Italy — Pompeii is the city of the long goodbye.

In A.D. 62, a major earthquake toppled buildings, causing severe damage, harbinger of what was to come. Seventeen years later, in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying Pompeii in a swift and terrible destruction.


 
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