[yarddog]

I wonder if some day, Naples will be covered with ash. I guess with modern volcano monitoring they will be able to leave but still it would be a catastrophe.

[SunkenCiv]

There were a bunch of other towns that took some punishment, and possibly the new cities (including “Neapolis”, new city, the ancient name for Naples) completely cover the abandoned older places. Ercolano is the modern version of Herculaeneum, and was imposed on the modern city fairly recently I think, I don’t recall what the local modern name used to be. :’) To the east a little there was an estate that was a working farm and basically industrial site in the ancient Roman world; it got buried and only found in the last hundred years or less.

http://www.utexas.edu/courses/romanciv/Romancivimages18/bayofnaples.gif

http://www.utexas.edu/courses/romanciv/Romancivimages18/day18captions.htm

http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0801VeseEruption79ad.jpg

http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRItkwVes08CampiFlegrei.html

Then there’s Nola, which was destroyed 2000 years before that.

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nola/index

[SunkenCiv]

whoops, sorry, the NOLA keyword includes hundreds of topics about New Orleans. Here are the relevant ones:

• First Pompeii Uncovered (3rd Century BC) [2007]
• Italians Dig Deep to Reveal Forgotten Roman City [2006]
• Pompei Discovery For Swedish Archaeologists [2005]
• Pompeii's Burial Not Its First Disaster [2004]
• Move Over, Pompeii [2004]
• Pompeii Find Shows Secrets Of The Samnites [2004]
• 'Bronze Age Pompeii' Found In Italy [2001]