The Last Day of Pompeii
The area around the volcano is now densely populated
Pompeii and sleeping Vesuvius today
An aerial photo of Vesuvius
The eruption of Vesuvius
Cast of a dog that died in Pompeii as a result of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. Archaeologists believe the dog was chained outside the House of Vesonius Primus, a Pompeiian fuller
"Garden of the Fugitives". Some plaster casts of victims of the eruption still in actual Pompeii; many are in the Archaeological Museum of Naples. (Casts can also be found, amongst other places, near the forum, inside the baths, and at the Villa of the Mysteries.)
Karl Brullov, The Last Day of Pompeii ( )
Outbreak of the Vesuvius. Painting by Norwegian painter I.C. Dahl (1826)