Pompeii: geography, destruction, discovery
Across
- 2. Pliny described the cloud as being like this (4,4)
- 4. he saw the eruption and tried to help
- 5. they howled just before the eruption
- 8. sea close to Pompeii (3,2,6)
- 10. the big hill that ruined everything
- 11. the condition of these could tell us about someone's diet
- 12. he invented the use of plaster casts of victims
- 13. what happened to people breathing in poisonous gases
- 14. this might tell us about someone's wealth
- 16. the river running by Pompeii
Down
- 1. Pliny the Younger wrote to him telling him about the eruption
- 3. these happened quite frequently, but especially in 62AD
- 4. the final destructive surge (11,4)
- 6. you could grow these in the fertile land
- 7. lots of this fell at first during the eruption
- 9. what happened to those who stayed
- 11. they stopped singing before the eruption
- 15. what some people tried to do during the eruption