Ancient Pompeii photo copyrighted by: Alan Ingram Ancient city of Campania, Italy, 14 miles (23 km) southeast of Naples, at the
southeastern base of Mount Vesuvius. It was built on a spur formed by a prehistoric lava flow to the north of the mouth of the Sarnus (modern Sarno) River. Pompeii was destroyed, together with Herculaneum, Stabiae, Torre Annunziata, and other communities, by the violent eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
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