Pompeii was not destroyed.
Pompeii , along with Herculaneum and many villas in the suzrrounding area , was mostly destroyed and buried under 4 to of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD .	Herculaneum	Herculaneum	volcanic ash	volcanic ash	pumice	pumice	eruption	Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79	Mount Vesuvius	Mount Vesuvius
