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- excavation
- It was not until 1763 that the ???? of the ruins first began.
- dormant
- Versuvius is a volcano, but it had been ???? for eight hundred years.
- stupendous
- ???? forces were slowly building deep beneath the surface.
- prelude
- The earthquake was merely the ???? to a far worse disaster.
- fumes
- Smoke, poisonous ????, and ash from the volcano filled the air.
- perished
- Also uncovered were the bodies of the more than two thousand people who ???? on that terrible day when the sleeping volcano suddenly woke up.
- expelled
- On August 24 A.D. 79, the pressure became so great that the plug of lava was suddenly ???? in a tremendous explosion.
- painstaking
- ???? digging revealed streets and buildings filled with the objects of everyday life.
- elegant
- Rich landowners and retired Roman citizens built ???? homes in the town.
- molten
- There had been no activity during this time because a thick layer of ???? rock, called lava, had hardened to form a plug.
- population
- Two thousand years ago, Pompeii was a prosperous town with a ???? of perhaps twenty thousand people.
- suffocating
- The effects of the volcano filled the air, ???? many people in their homes.
- eruption
- A vivid description of the ???? of Vesuvius was given by Pliny the Younger, who later became a famous Roman statesman.
- tremors
- In A.D. 62, the town was shaken by ???? from an earthquake.
- scalded
- People and animals were ???? as they tried to flee.