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OCR: VESUVIUS. ITALY AD THEN VESUVIUS erupted heavy falls of ash and pumice, along with pyroclastic surges and mudflows, completely covered the Roman towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii, burying many people alive. The sites remained more or less untouched until the 1800s. when exca vations revealed priceless collection of archaeological treasures preserved for nearly 2 000 years under the hardened deposits PLASTER CAST ROMAN Archacologistsf punoy the shapes of Pompeii' puaps embedded in the enea ash They made plaster of the bodies Archacologists