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Pompeii's dark omen: Ancient footprints show people had to escape an eruption of Mount Vesuvius 1,800 years BEFORE the one that buried the famous Roman city

Mount Vesuvius' most famous eruption took place in AD 79. But more than 2,000 years before this, the volcano suffered an even larger outburst, triggering a masse exodus from the disaster zone.