Pretty cool. It prompted me to wonder how long it took for news of the event to disseminate throughout the empire and how it was received. The attached articles don&#x27;t really go into it. But the Wikipedia article includes this curious point, which I had never encountered before:<p><i>The eruption was documented by contemporary historians and is generally accepted as having started on 24 August 79, relying on one version of the text of Pliny&#x27;s letter. However the archeological excavations of Pompeii suggest that the city was buried about three months later. This is supported by another version of the letter, which gives the date of the eruption as November 23.</i><p>Which makes me want to imagine historians 2000 years from now debating whether 9&#x2F;11 really occurred on 9&#x2F;11 or closer to 12&#x2F;11.<p>Which almost makes me want to go ask on &#x2F;r&#x2F;AskHistorians whether there is any record of Pompeii Truthers. I&#x27;d be kinda shocked if there wasn&#x27;t.