article_snippet: Pompeii, a busy commercial city overlooking the Mediterranean, was destroyed in A.D. 79 by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius that killed thousands of people and buried the city in 20 feet of volcanic ash.
article_snippet: The mold of a victim of the volcanic eruption, which destroyed the city in A.D. 79 .
article_snippet: the city, a busy commercial city overlooking the Mediterranean, was destroyed in A.D. 79 by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius that killed thousands of people and buried the city in 20 feet of volcanic ash .
highlights_snippet: Pompeii was destroyed in 79 AD by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius .
  