Pompeii: geography, destruction, discovery

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