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Mount Vesuvius<br> Italy picture - towering over the site. A river of volcanic mud from the volcano in AD 79 was to complete submerge the site, thus preserving the site in a far better condition than Pompeii close by which was destroyed by lapilli (buirning fragments of pumice stone and ash).
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towering over the site. A river of volcanic mud from the volcano in AD 79 was to complete submerge the site, thus preserving the site in a far better condition than Pompeii close by which was destroyed by lapilli (buirning fragments of pumice stone and ash).
Western Europe
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image -- 1600 x 1200)