What people get wrong about Pompeii.

Pompeii was a city in what is now the municipality of Pompei, near Naples, in the Campania region of Italy.

Pompeii was a city in what is now the municipality of Pompei, near Naples, in the Campania region of Italy. Along with Herculaneum, Stabiae, and many surrounding villas, it was buried under 4 to 6 m of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.