When did Mount Vesuvius bury Pompeii?

does anyone know for a FACT how many years ago mount Vesuvius buried pompeii?

Answer #1

it was in 79 CE (evidence of this came from the letters written by Gaius Pliny Secundus, who witnessed the event) so 1929 years ago…

Carolis, Ernesto De and Giovanni Patricelli 2003 Vesuvius A.D. 79 The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Getty Publications: Los Angles, California.

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