Across
- 6. the conditions of a volcanic eruption can cause this
- 7. the name of a major street in Pompeii
- 10. the main town meeting and trading centre
- 13. another town also covered in ash
- 14. fast and hot flows and surges were part of this phase
- 17. the rediscovery of the buried Pompeiian city resulted in this
- 18. became the official Roman language
- 19. Haraldur Sigurdsson’s career
- 20. damaged building in Pompeii prior to the big eruption
- 22. one way people died in the eruption
- 23. the eruptive column resembled this
- 25. the series of conflicts between Rome and Carthage
- 27. the soil around Vesuvius
- 28. the god thought to have his forge beneath an active mountain
- 31. a neighbouring town of Pompeii
- 32. a people from the north of Rome who had great cultural influence
- 33. The force of the eruptive blast was 100x this
- 35. layers of debris than can be examined to reconstruct an eruption
- 36. a people who colonised southern Italy
- 38. the first phase of the eruption of Vesuvius
- 39. one of the gates of Pompeii
Down
- 1. an Italian tribe that may have settled Pompeii
- 2. fought in the apmphitheatre
- 3. developed a method to capture the last moments of life using plaster moulds
- 4. the Phlegraean fields were thought to be an entrance to this...
- 5. Pompeii had three sets of these
- 8. Pompeii was in this region of Italy
- 9. a Egyptian goddess who had a temple in Pompeii
- 11. broke out in 59 CE
- 12. the status of Vesuvius now
- 15. an important crop on the slopes of Vesuvius
- 16. assassinated in 44BCE
- 21. Pompeii had many of these
- 24. a town buried by the eruption of Vesuvius
- 26. the heir of Julius Caesar who became the first Roman emperor
- 29. where the Roman fleet was stationed
- 30. the effect of pyroclastic surges on human bodies
- 31. the ancient name for the city of Naples
- 34. a warlike tribe who took over Campania in the 400s BCE
- 37. the number of gateways leading out of Pompeii