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 Pompeii  957 pictures
The site was well suited for human settlement, of an agricultural and commercial character, and was probably already inhabited in the middle Bronze Age. During the Iron Age (900-600 B.C.) large settlements were concentrated along the middle reaches of the Saruns River. During the Samnite era, Pompeii received a strong push towards urbanization. Towards the end of the 4th century B.C., after a new wave of Samnite immigration, Rome began to look towards southern Italy. The life of this town was interrupted at the end of the second millennium B.C. by a volcano eruption. The city was badly damaged by the earthquake which hit Campania in 62 A.D., and than in 24th of August 79 A.D. an eruption of Vesuvius killed many of the inhabitants and buried the whole city beneath a rain of ash and cinders in a height of 7 meters. For most of the 30,000 inhabitants of the city there was no escape. Today, striking evidence of the dramatic unfolding of the disaster is revealed in the numerous plaster casts of those who, instead of seeking salvation by fleeing towards the sea, took shelter in their homes, in their storerooms and under the arcades, where they met their death. Pompeii - The beauty: Architecture and Paintings              
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