POMPEII: TALES FROM AN ERUPTION

The fabled city of Pompeii and nearby Italian coastal resort towns of Herculaneum, Oplontis and Terzigno were destroyed in 79 AD by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius that killed nearly 3,000 people. Until its first excavations, Pompeii slept for 1,600 years under 20 feet of volcanic ash. Tales vividly brings to life the terrifying final hours of a highly sophisticated people overtaken by a downpour of ash and searing gases as they fled their homes. The stories of how they lived and died unfold in what they carried and what they left behind.

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