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Pompeii: The Last Day

Completed2 episodes27 BC – AD 476

A busy Roman town, a mountain no one feared, and the eruption that froze a moment of daily life for two thousand years.

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Episodes

  1. 1 A Town Beneath the Mountain 1 min read Bakeries, taverns and election slogans: ordinary life in Pompeii.
  2. 2 The Cloud Shaped Like a Pine 1 min read AD 79: a young man across the bay watches the mountain explode, and writes it all down.
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