[00:00.00]Unit 16 Stories

[00:06.56]Lesson 1

[00:08.14]Stories from History

[00:11.09]Pompeii:The city that became a time capsule

[00:16.76]Around the end of the fitst century AD,

[00:19.85]a Roman writer called pliny wrote about

[00:22.15]a devastating volcanic eruption,

[00:24.94]that he had withnessed as a young man.

[00:27.86]The eruptin had occurred on August 24th,79AD

[00:32.12]and it was of Mount Vesuvius in Italy.

[00:36.04]Pliny described a cloud coming down

[00:38.17]the mountain,blocking out the sun and

[00:40.60]burying everything in its path,

[00:42.98]including whole villages and towns.

[00:46.72]The tragedy had left a deep impression on Pliny

[00:49.44]who had lost an uncle in the event .

[00:52.51]Yet,over the centuries,

[00:54.41]the people who disappeared under the ashes

[00:56.34]of Mount Vesuvius were gradually forgotten

[00:58.76]by the world,

[01:00.37]and the locations of the buried towns and

[01:02.23]villages were lost.

[01:05.38]However,more than 1,600 years later,

[01:09.12]some archaeologists,started uncovering the

[01:11.74]lost town that were buried under the ashes of

[01:14.28]Mount Vesubius.

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