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Bodies from the ash / James M. Deem.

By: Deem, James M.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005Description: 50 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 24 x 29 cm.ISBN: 0618473084 (hardcover).Subject(s): Pompeii (Extinct city) -- Juvenile literature | Vesuvius (Italy) -- Eruption, 79 -- Juvenile literature | Excavations (Archaeology) -- Italy -- Pompeii (Extinct city) -- Juvenile literature | Pompeii (Extinct city) | Vesuvius (Italy) -- Eruption, 79 | Excavations (Archaeology) | Pompeii (Extinct city) | Vesuvius (Italy) | Excavations (Archeology) -- Pompeii (Extinct city)DDC classification: 937/.7
Contents:
August 24 and 25, AD 79 -- Rediscovering Pompeii -- The plaster bodies of Pompeii -- Lives from the ashes -- Herculaneumæs different fate -- A final excavation.
Awards: D.C.F. Award 2006-07.Summary: Describes the archaeological excavations that began on the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum which had been buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-48) and index.

Describes the archaeological excavations that began on the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum which had been buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79.

August 24 and 25, AD 79 -- Rediscovering Pompeii -- The plaster bodies of Pompeii -- Lives from the ashes -- Herculaneumæs different fate -- A final excavation.

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D.C.F. Award 2006-07.

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