Just a few months ago, the city of Pompeii, here in Italy, was a thriving city of 20,000 people. After the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius on August 24, 674 A.U.C., the city is now buried under cinders, ashes and stone.

It began as a regular day in Pompeii, the public baths were opening for business, women were filling water jugs from the street fountains, and at the Temple of Isis, the priests were sitting down to a meal of nuts, eggs, fish and lentils. However, no one knew that one of the worst disasters of Pompeii was about to happen, and that their city would be destroyed. At around lunch time, a deafening crack split the air and the earth trembled violently. As people looked out their windows, they saw thick smoke, showers of hot, wet ashes, and cinders rushing down from Mt. Vesuvius on their city. Pompeii was...