Destruction+of+Pompeii+and+Herculaneum

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**Event Summary**

 * [|Pompeii: Portents of Disaster] from BBC News.** The volcano erupted in 79 CE destroying the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.


 * Map of approximate fallout from the eruption. It helps to explain differences in the destruction (and preservation) of Pompeii, where many died of suffocation, and Herculaneum, where most were killed instantly.**
 * (**https://symonsez.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/vesuviusimpact79ad.jpg)

[|Mary Beard on Life in Pompeii and Herculaneum], March 2013





**Multimedia Resources**
A Day in Pompeii: Full-Length Animation from YouTube.

Pompeii:The Last Day from The Romans on BBC



[[image:primary_sources.PNG]]Primary Sources
Ancient History And Archeology.com gives evidence of women in Pompeii and Herculaneum managing businesses despite traditional values preventing them from doing so.

Click here for tweets based on accounts by Pliny the Elder

Dispatches from a Dying Pompeii reviews first-hand accounts by Pliny the Younger.

Reading the Writing on Pompeii's Walls from the Smithsonian Magazine.

See also Graffiti from the Walls of Pompeii

Build Your Own Volcano. Students can build their own virtual volcano and watch it erupt by setting the conditions and seeing what kind of explosion results

Volcanic Eruptions in History

 * 11 Biggest Volcanic Eruptions in History**


 * 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption was the most destructive in U. S. History**


 * [[image:Multimedia.png link="@https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYla6q3is6w"]]Link to footage of the eruption from Smithsonian Channel**