145 - History's Most Interesting Non-Water Floods
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Pompey Eruption
Historians have long believed that mount visuvius erupted on 24th of august 79 ad destroying the nearby roman city of pompey. Now an inscription has been uncovered dated to mid october almost two months later. "It's kind of crazy too because one of the greatest historians in antiquity plenty the younger was there and another famous historian pliny the elder died in that eruption"
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