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Summary Of History Vault: Cities Of The Underworld
CITIES OF THE UNDERWORLD

There are many volcanos in the world, but one particular volcano called Mount Vesuvius is over thousands of years old. It was so powerful that it erupted over 50 times in total so far. When this volcano had its famous eruption, it buried the ancient roman city under a very large layer of ash from the volcano. During this event people who lived in the ancient roman city were trying to survive from this tragedy. Over two thousand people had died along with the city being forgotten. When some researchers and explorers went to this this tragedy in the year 1748, they were shocked to discover the Pompeii had no damage and was still standing under the thick layer of ashes. There were antiquities, buildings, and skeletons from the past has taught us today a lot about history from the ancient life. Is this world Naples from the past have barely escaped from its home to see the Pompeii from long ago under the volcanic ashes when the volcano erupted.
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Century after century the Naples have made a great success in making an analog world underground. This underground world was almost,like the world above, it had houses for people, banks, and food places like bakeries. When this world was made it took decades for people to discover this world underground. This discovery was around Beneath Vesuvius time which was long

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