Killing around 2,000 residents, what ancient city was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD?

Located near the Bay of Naples, the ancient Roman city of Pompeii was buried beneath ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. The site reemerged when a surveying engineer rediscovered it in 1748, and ever since has become a vast archeological exhibition, with the houses, streets, amphitheaters – and even bodies of those lost – preserved.

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