What were the consequences of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD?

Answer 1

At the time of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 of the Common Era, Vesuvius was largely a vacation spot on the Gulf of Naples for wealthy Roman landowners who had numerous villas in the area. Although the eruption killed all inhabitants in area and surrounding regions and was mentioned in Pliny's writing, the buried city became "lost" to history until 1749 when it was rediscovered by the Spanish engineer Joaquin de Alcubierre. The area around Pompeii was agriculturally rich and the citizens who owned farms became wealthy. Much of the produce was last to commerce. Rome, itself, essentially lost its vacation spot but continued to prosper and grow into the vast Roman Empire. Excavations since have determined that the citizenry of the cities, Pompeii and Herculaneum died from intense heat (482-degrees Fahrenheit) rather than ash. The recovered remains of the cities have provided historians, art historians, sociologists and anthropologists with considerable information about daily life in one of Rome's most prosperous "colonies."