Secrets of Pompeii: Buried City of Ancient Rome

Secrets of Pompeii: Buried City of Ancient Rome — page 3
The workers didn’t know what they had found but they had stumbled upon the ancient city of Pompeii By the time Fontana’s crew found it in 1599 Pompeii was just a name in old stories architect a person who designs buildings and advises in their construction Long before Pompeii was a rich busy Roman city It was located just 5 miles 8 kilometers from a volcano called Mount Vesuvius More than 1,500 years earlier the volcano exploded with a terrifying eruption and Pompeii vanished The artifacts were interesting but the workers weren’t there to discover an ancient city They were supposed to be digging a tunnel So Fontana had the men cover up the findings and move on with their work Nobody made a big deal of it at the time but Pompeii had been found eruption the action of a volcano suddenly throwing out rock hot ash and lava with great force artifact an object used in the past that was made by people