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Junior Cycle Classics: Archaeology and Pompeii
How often Archaeology and Pompeii comes up on the Classics papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.
CL Asked on 4 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. most years
Quick ones on Archaeology and Pompeii.
- Etna
- Vesuvius
- Stromboli
- Small public hot baths
- Shops selling pottery jars
- Street bars for hot food
- Ash sealed a whole town at one moment
- Romans rebuilt it exactly as it was
- Its people wrote a full history of it
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(a) Vesuvius
(b) Street bars for hot food
(c) Ash sealed a whole town at one moment
Common Level
Asked on 4 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. most years
Every paper, year by year
| Year | Where it came up |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Q5 |
| 2025 | Q4 |
| 2024 | Not asked |
| 2023 | Q6 |
| 2022 | Q7 |
Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.
More Archaeology and Pompeii questions
Archaeology and Pompeii, 2 marks
Which Roman writer described the eruption of Vesuvius in letters to the historian Tacitus?
- Seneca the Younger
- Julius Caesar
- Pliny the Younger
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Pliny the Younger
Pliny the Younger watched from Misenum across the bay; his uncle, Pliny the Elder, died trying to rescue people. The letters are an eyewitness written source.