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Did Mount Vesuvius destroy Pompeii or did it bury it?
I'm very curious about the details because judging by the accounts of what I've read about the 78 AD and many of Vesuvius's subsequent eruptions is that very little of the damage seems to have been caused by the Lava.
That makes me wonder if the damage was caused by the Pyroclastic Flow which I assume must've buried it under a huge amount of rock and ash.
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- 6 years agoFavorite Answer
Yes, it buried it, but it did not destroy it. That's why you can still visit Pompeii to this day, walk its streets and see into its homes. It's a fascinating time capsule into the realities of 1st century Roman life.
The people killed there were not killed by the explosion of pyroclastic flow, but from suffocation as the ash and poisoned gas poured down on them.
- ?Lv 76 years ago
Pompeii was buried in ash. By contrast the neighbouring city of Herculaneum was blasted to pieces by pyroclastic flow.
- ?Lv 76 years ago
Both, a large part of the town was flattened in the lava flows and earthquakes. By luck a large part also survived and was smothered in a pyroclastic flow. The flow is fine hot dry ash and this can fill and seal and then concrete to a strong solid.
