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Mount Vesuvius has experienced eight major eruptions in the last 17,000 years. The 79 AD eruption is one of the most well-known ancient eruptions in the world, and may have killed more than 16,000 people.

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It is not known how many people the eruption killed. The remains of about 332 bodies have been found at Herculaneum.

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More than 3,000 people were killed when Mount Vesuvius erupted on August 24, AD 79.

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that's a good question its thousands with 200 ijured

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We don't know yet. The body count still isn't in. It was not just Pompeii that got dumped on by Vesuvius, but there were the towns of Herculaneum, Oplontis, and Stabiae.

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A estamite of 2,000 people.

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