Fill in the blanks in the exercise with one of the following words: destroyed, features, plaster casts, archaelogists, commercial , preserved, ash, buried, taverns, metalworkers, potters
The city of Pompeii was by a volcanic eruption. The city of Pompeii was a centre with lots of shops whereworked with clay, and also had their shops in Pompeii. were very popular and people had often lunch there. This lively city was under hot lava and volcanic and everybody died a horrible death. Amazingly, the lava which destroyed the city also it. began excavations in Pompeii many years ago and they made an interesting discovery. They filled empty spaces in the ground with white plaster and they got of people's bodies. These help us understand the people of Pompeii better and we can see many of people's bodies in them.
