Pompeii
Ash 4 to 6 m Deep
Buried under four to six metres of ash in AD 79, and largely preserved by it. The Bureau files the eruption under conservation measures, unintended. The town held ten to twenty thousand inhabitants at the time. Excavation began in 1748 under Roque Joaquin de Alcubierre, who did not at first establish which city he had found. The Bureau notes that the place was better known before it was buried than for the millennium and a half that followed.
| Designation | The Forum |
|---|---|
| Gazetted | BURIED AD 79 |
| Standing notice | Ash 4 to 6 m Deep |
| Issuing office | Gazetteer Bureau of Tourism & Exploration |
