The Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried under tonnes of pumice and volcanic ash when the volcano Vesuvius erupted in CE79. In the mid-18th century the towns were ‘discovered’ and artwork and mosaics were removed to nearby Naples. It was not until the following century that the true wonder of Pompeii emerged, however, when plaster casts were used to show the exact form of people sheltering from what would later be known as a pyroclastic flow, a phenomenon not properly documented or understood until the eruption of Mount St Helens in 1980.see more
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