Awesome facts about Pompeii, Herculaneum and Vesuvius Many known places Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Vesuvius have quite beautiful insights that one is hardly aware of.
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.
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.
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.
The Catastrophic eruption held on the 24th August 79 AD lasted more than 24 hours.
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.
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.
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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