Pompeii

by Liz Sonneborn and Liz Zonneborn

An ancient city unearthed... In the 1730s, Charles of Bourbon, king of the area around present-day Naples, Italy, learned that local peasants were finding marble and other ancient objects when they dug their wells. He sent army colonel Rocque Joachin Alcubierre and later Karl Jacob Weber to explore the area. Working in darkness with only torches to light their way, Alcubierre's and Weber's crews of workers tunneled through hardened mud. the crews...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822575051
• ISBN13: 9780822575054
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.3" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8