Eruption of Mount Vesuvius (79 CE)

The Roman Empire in the late second century CE, during the reign of Marcus Aurelius and the early reign of Commodus.

Roman prefect of Judea who presided over the authority responsible for Jesus’s crucifixion.

The volcano whose 79 CE eruption devastated Pompeii, Herculaneum, and surrounding villas.

Pompeii was a Roman city in Campania near the Bay of Naples, destroyed and buried during the 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius.