The end of Pompeii On a hot August day in 79 AD, the people of Herculaneum - a wealthy ____ town near Naples - watched in horror as a column of ____ ash, gas and stone was sent high into the sky by the ____ of Mount Vesuvius. The people of nearby Pompeii were buried under this huge boiling hot ____ flow. The people of Herculaneum had some warning and it is believed that many managed to escape, but several hundred were not so lucky. When the mud and ____ cooled, it became solid and preserved the structures it had covered. Many of the ruins of the houses and streets of Herculaneum are in much better condition than those of Pompeii. Many of the upper storeys of ____ are still exactly as they were then and much of the original ____ remains, even though it is, of course, badly burned. There is even a wooden Roman bed still as it was then. Although sad, the ruins of Herculaneum are fascinating. They are something that no visitor to the ____ should miss.

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