Historians do have access to one particular eyewitness account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, and it's the one that Pliny the Younger left behind.| Grunge
Mt. Vesuvius erupted in the year 79 AD, wiping out the towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii as it spilled an estimated 1.5 million tons of volcano bits into the air per second. Apparently, it also turned one man's brain into glass.| Grunge
Herculaneum, like it's neighboring city Pompeii, was destroyed and buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E. Here's what happened to the bodies.| Grunge