Pompeii is a Beverly Historical Society Site.
Beverly Historical Society . The Society 's collections include manuscripts , books , photographs , maps , ephemera , decorative arts , and other artifacts related to the history of Beverly and the North Shore of Massachusetts . Located in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius , Herculaneum ( Italian : Ercolano ) was an ancient Roman town destroyed by volcanic pyroclastic flows in 79 AD . Mount Vesuvius ( [ pronvᵻˈsuːviəs ] Monte Vesuvio [ ˈmonte veˈzuːvjo ] Vesuvio Mons Vesuvius [ mõːs wɛˈsʊwɪ.ʊs ] also Vesevus or Vesaevus in some Roman sources ) is a somma-stratovolcano located on the Gulf of Naples in Campania , Italy , about 9 km east of Naples and a short distance from the shore . Pompeii . Pompeii , along with Herculaneum and many villas in the suzrrounding area , was mostly destroyed and buried under 4 to of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD .