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79 Mount Vesuvius near Pompeii erupts

August 24, 79 AD: “Mount Vesuvius near Pompeii, Italy, begins to erupt in the year 79; within the next 25 hours, it wipes out the entire town. Hundreds of years later, archaeologists excavated Pompeii and found everything and everyone that had been there that day perfectly preserved by the volcano’s ash.   Pompeii, about 90 miles south of Rome, was established in 600 B.C.E. in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, which stood approximately 6,500 feet high. Apparently, no one was aware that Vesuvius was an active volcano, even after an earthquake in February of the year 63.   The preserved […]

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70 Romans destroy Temple of Jerusalem

Romans destroy the Third Temple of Jerusalem, leaving erect only the famous Wailing Wall. Rome troops abolishes the Jewish high priesthood After a siege lasting 139 days, Jerusalem is taken but largely destroyed. The temple has already caught fire, in spite of Titus’ efforts to save it. The Jewish dispersal or diaspora begins with the sack of Jerusalem. The oral laws of Moses are added to the Pentateuch to form the Torah which will in future bind Jews together. Probable date for the writing of The Revelations of St. John the Divine (almost certainly not John the Apostle). In 538 […]

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