Groundbreaking research reveals new details about how deadly volcano Vesuvius destroyed the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in 79 AD. Gas and ash turned 16,000 people into glass.

Experts note that they know what happened in those 32 hours of hell, when thousands of people were buried alive. A new study shows that there was a five -hour window when the inhabitants could escape from Pompees and escape, but were too scared to do this, writes Thusun.

It is known that the volcano Vesuvius, more than 600 meters high, is located in the Bay of Naples, on the western coast of Italy. On August 24, 79 of our era, around noon, he threw into the air a colossal cloud of stone fragments and gas, known as a "

At approximately 2 p.m., large chunks of pumice, a porous volcanic rock, began to fall.. It was then, according to the researchers, the destructive fiery rain led to the complete panic of the inhabitants of Pompeii and neighboring Herculanum, writes Dailymail.

However, a significant part of the people could survive if she left their native settlements during the five-hour period of the first day, but did not do this because of the rain from the wreckage raving from the sky, experts say.

However, five hours after the eruption began, the first of the volcano's " And these deadly streams of hot, poisonous gases and volcanic particles poured from the mountainside at a speed of 200 kilometers per hour, scientists say.

According to the researchers, these searing gas streams vaporized people and even turned human tissue into glass in a process known as vitrification..

Gas flows lasted overnight and the next day with an interval of about 80 minutes. And at sunrise on August 25, the eruptive column fell to the ground, experts say.

The most deadly pyroclastic flow occurred at 7:07 in the morning the day after the eruption. That is, over the course of nine hours, a searing stream of debris snaked from the volcano's crater down the hillside, engulfing Pompeii in a deadly cloud, researchers say..

By 4 p.m., the volcano began mixing with water underground, making it more explosive and the pyroclastic flow shallower.

According to experts, this stage of the flow passed about 25 kilometers from the crater, but did not contain human remains, which indicates that very few people of Pompeii were still alive at this stage.

And only at 20:05 the deadly eruption of Vesuvius stopped, according to scientists.

It is known that the corpses of the inhabitants of Pompeii were kept in a protective shell of ash, inside which they slowly decomposed. To preserve the structures of bodies, scientists began filling voids with plaster in the mid-1800s..

Today, Vesuvius is again considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world. It is still active and may erupt again. However, predicting when this will happen is an extremely difficult task for volcanologists, experts say.

In the 20th century, not far from the excavations, new Pompeii arose - a modern city with an ancient name, where archaeologists continue to find new data about the terrible eruption of Vesuvius.