Most of the subsidence in the area around the volcano is more gradual, at around per day.

But you can see, even just intuit, from this map, that the harbor has dredged and flattened, and went from a rich, three dimensional mosaic to flat muck in really a matter of years.

And it turns out that his temporal bones were harvested when he died to try to look at the cause of his deafness, which is why he has molding clay and his skull is bulging out on the side there.

The Ebla tablets are a collection of as many as 1800 complete clay tablets, 4700 fragments and many thousand minor chips found in the palace archives of the ancient city of Ebla, Syria.