Awesome facts about Pompeii, Herculaneum and Vesuvius

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Awesome facts about Pompeii, Herculaneum and
Vesuvius

• Many known places Pompeii, Herculaneum, and
  Vesuvius have quite beautiful insights that one
  is hardly aware of.

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It was said that over 13 of the total population
of Pompeii died in the initial blast. Nearly a
population of around 15,000 people were there,
and an estimated 2,000 died.
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Mount Vesuvius is most dangerous volcanoes one
in the worlds. The eruptions of it are explosive
involve pyroclastic flows, which cause the
fast-moving currents fluidized rock and gases.
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Pompeii became frozen in time when the historians
found a glimpse into what life was like in
ancient Rome when more than 1,000 casts were made
of recovered bodies which were preserved in the
ash.
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The Catastrophic eruption held on the 24th August
79 AD lasted more than 24 hours.
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In Greek mythology - Servius informed us that the
name Pompeii that was derived from word pumpe,
which was one of the commemorative procession in
honor of Hercules victory over the Giants.
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An architect of Domenico Fontana unearthed some
of the frescos and items, but many of them had a
strong sexual theme which was not considered a
good thing in that age, so he decided to rebury
them.
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The Official tour guide Pompeii believes to have
many more facts hidden, to know them one should
visit the place to explore them all.
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