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The earliest recorded eruption (AD 79) was described by Pliny the Younger in two letters to Tacitus; the eruption buried Pompeii , Herculaneum , and Stabiae under cinders, ashes, and mud. Pliny the Elder was killed by the eruption, which he had come to investigate.

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