Weird History

What Life In Pompeii Was Like BEFORE The Eruption (2025x50)

Air date: Aug 24, 2025

In the year 79 C-E, the volcano Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the Roman town of Pompeii and hundreds of its inhabitants beneath a sea of lava and a cloud of ash. Ironically, the same forces that destroyed the city also preserved Pompeii’s remains in a way that has given archaeologists a unique glimpse of what everyday life was like there in the weeks leading up to the big bang.