Rocks from Pompeii suburb tells a story of destruction--that could help us today

Chemistry and first-person sources are joining forces to date eruptions. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. The archaeological site of Oplontis is one of the wonders returned after the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD together with the excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Two-thousand years ago, a Roman author and lawyer named Pliny the Younger wrote an account of one of the most destructive disasters in human history. He chronicled Mount Vesuvius' eruption and the subsequent burial of Pompeii, which killed his uncle Pliny the Elder and about 2,000 others.