Vesuvius, Italy


The crater of Vesuvius. All photographs courtesy of and copyrighted by Mike Lyvers.


Another view of the crater of Vesuvius.


Some victims of Vesuvius's 79 A.D. eruption. These skeletons were all found in a boathouse on what was at the time the shoreline below Herculanum. They had fled there in an attempt to escape the pyroclastic flow. Note the positions of some of them - hugging each other, etc.


The interior of a house in Herculanum.



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