We’ll start with a video from the BBC and with a focus on what the people died from:
… and then remind folks of a Scientific American blog on the subject (which includes another one of our fave videos):
… and now that you’re interested (as if you weren’t), we’ll remind folks of the Ancient World Open Bibliography on the subject:
… and in case you didn’t see it in the Scientific American thing up there:
Wow! That is one heck of a documentary. It gave me chills! I felt like I was actually there. Now I’m going to have nightmares for years! Awesomely done. Thank you for showing this. It can educate us even today. We tend to think with all our tech that we are bigger and stronger than Mother Earth. Not so. I am glad I live where no volcanoes are nearby.
Shudder! Thanks again.
Should anyone want to hear the Pompeii song in French (no video), it is here:
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