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2,000 citizens of the city died from the ash flow, gases and debris from the eruption. When Mount Vesuvius erupted cataclysmically in the summer of A.D. 79, the nearby Roman town of Pompeii was buried under several feet of ash and rock.Pompeii.

Along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area, was mostly destroyed and buried under 4 to 6 m 13 to 20 of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

Pompeii was a large Roman town in the Italian region of Campania which was completely buried in volcanic ash following the eruption of nearby Mt Vesuvius.