Vesuvius looked different though before the eruption One of the frescoes has a depiction of it -- and it had an exposed magma plug at the crest.
Vesuvius looked different though before the eruption One of the frescoes has a depiction of it -- and it had an exposed magma plug at the crest.
Thanks! I've always liked that one in particular. Pliny the Elder (great ancient scholar; apparently not quite great enough, on that day) died of poison gas rolling down off the mountain; Pliny the Younger was offshore watching the whole thing, and recorded what he saw, plus the eyewitness accounts of the death of his adoptive father.