Pompeii's Downfall: The Power Of Vesuvius | Pompeii's Pyroclastic Flow | Timeline
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- Stylish, fast-moving and filmic, The Riddle of Pompeii finally solves one of the world's biggest archaeological mysteries.
In AD 79 the legendary volcano Vesuvius erupted in one of the deadliest volcanic eruptions of all time, destroying the town of Pompeii. For 400 years archaeologists have studied the ancient bodies found buried beneath layers of ash and rock. The explanation for the victims’ deaths has always been that they were killed by flying rocks and boiling lava. This is the interpretation still given to tourists who visit the site at Pompeii today. Yet an intriguing mystery lies at the centre of this explanation...
The people of Pompeii had ample warning that the volcano was about to erupt, and yet they apparently stayed put, awaiting death in their hundreds. Why? The skeletons of those who stayed behind were miraculously preserved in the dust and very few show any sign of damage, violence or attempts to flee. How, then, did they die? This film reveals the terrible truth of what happened to the people of Pompeii on that fated day. Building on cutting edge scientific theories and using very high production values to create beautiful dramatic reconstructions, it finally solves the riddle of Pompeii.
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Awesome video!!!!!
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Many inaccuracies, require reviews by academic historians
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I visited Pompeii with my parents and I remember my father being quite affected by the plaster casts. Although sixty years have passed, I remember our visit well. Pompeii and Herculaneum are a stark reminder of how quickly disaster can strike.
@The silverback it is, we need to leave positive memories behind us when we go❤💞
The eruption was rlly long, everyone could have escsprf
@@Roin_robin87 Please remember, the people of Pompeii had little idea of exactly what was happening. And even those who left the city had no idea of that a pyroclastic flow was going to happen. As Professor Sigurdsson points out, escapees from the city itself were probably caught in one of the five or six pyroclastic flows produced during the eruption.
@M-A Indeed it is and Pompeii and Herculaneum teach us that lesson.
100% he should and we should aswell this is gods wrath
What a slow, horrible, violent unforgiving death! Not only were their lungs burned by the hot air, their lungs also filled with burning hot pieces of pumice/rock!
The Vesuvius expert scientist is phenomenal. His vast intelligence and knowledge is amazing.
Right? I'm too lazy to take that kind of time. I'm glad someone else does the study.
@@henoovyourslavangi8518 teehee i know!
Any time a new generation of scientists scholars or safety directors come along the previous generation didn't do something right or look at things from the right perspective.
He's a volcanologist. He would know more about this than anyone who is not in that field.
Plus he’s kind of a sexy daddy... just saying.
I've watched many versions of videos on this topic and each time I learned something new. I can appreciate the opportunity to learn rather than just make mean comments like others on this comments feed.
Hippie
But making mean comments are fun. As I said to myself as video started "they were gassed, suffocated, choked. Their bodies were dehydrated, sucked of all moisture, flash baked from heat and gases."
As long as you have not learnt the reason for this happening... i am afraid you haven’t learnt that much
@@muhammadkhurramiqbal say what? The volcano erupted.... Period!! That is all that needs to be learnt. If you live under a volcano you may die. People live under that volcano today, they may die.
@@aspenrebel stuff like that happens living around volcanoes. Living on the ocean you may be hit by a hurricane.
Very informative video, worth watching, but I've never heard anyone claim that they were killed by lava or a shower of rocks, I've always heard it was hot ash and pyroclastic flow.
The thumbnail is from the painting "The Last Day of Pompeii" by the Russian painter Karl Bryullov, if anyone's interested.
interesting, thank you :)
Thank you for the information. That really is an incredible painting.
Currently doing it as a puzzle 😁
One of the BEST Pompeii documentaries I’ve seen because I finally learned something new. Amazing.
I can't even imagine, all the pain, the people were in, breathing in the final surge. Great information video.
I can't imagine the horror which everybody experience during the outburst of the volcano, history has always repeated itself throughout the years, Men, Women and Children parished in the most horrific manner, it breaks my heart
Perish is the word.
Outstanding quality, with excellent expert sources, a clear narrative, realistic graphic simulations and a tightly-reasoned, compelling case that solves the riddle. Cannot recommend this highly enough, and I subscribed.
The only thing missing was the end credits, containing names of all those who produced this jewel of a documentary.
Being a graduate of history I would have loved to have seen Pompeii in its heyday. To go back in time when it was at its most pristine to take in its culture and art.
Interesting, I have the same desires but I am not a graduate of history… how does that work?
Historical Sci-Fi does it best in the telling minus the embellishments. @@john-qz3fu
Herculaneum is almost pristine. The wood is fossilized and therefor almost everything intact. Gives an awesome view how everything looked!
During a landslide watch after five days of rain in Japan I wondered why everyone did not evacuate. There is a strong bond and a sense of duty for the strong to stay back to recue those in need. I learned .
Such an event is academic - until something like this documentary brings it home. One of the best, and I don't say that lightly.
The curious phenomena of nature never ceases to impress with it's gross power.
Terribly tragic and horrible death for these people and animals. Especially the children.
Indeed. I just hope that the next time Vesuvius blows like it did in AD 79, people will be able to evacuate. I say this because there will be forewarnings--hopefully enough warning to get everyone out.
Don't bet on it. If Italy 🇮🇹will be as incompetent as their current crisis,Pompeii 2 will be worse.
@@daniel3231995 You have that right ! Why folks have not left the city in Italy by now is beyond me with the volcano becoming so active for months now.
They all should watch this video !
@@ghostcityshelton9378, “arrogant” and “worse than their ancestors” describe those in Italy whom are still living too close to Mount Vesuvius and have chosen to not leave even though they are not too vulnerable to leave.
Suffocating on burning ash and dust...that has got to be a horrific way to die 😧
I love the narrators voice. I wish she narrated every documentary.
She’s narrated episodes of the Channel 4 series “Bodyshock”
Ikr!!
I like her voice, too.
Her name is Lucy Briers if you're interested in more. She's also acted in a lot of TV shows and movies.
She'd be rubbish narrating a documentary on stand-up comedy.
I lived through the ash cloud from the Saint Helen's eruption May 29, 1980. Only 2 inches hit Spokane, WA but 4 pm turned to midnight for an hour then it came down like gray snow. Till it rained a week later we couldn't drive or go to work. When we went outside we wore a mask to avoid breathing in the ash. The following summer was unusually wet and Eastern Washington and Idaho have bumper wheat crops. It wasn't as bad as Pompeii but there are no cities that close to Saint Helens.
Had there been, things could have been so much worse. Glad you and your neighbours were OK.
Pyroclastic flows move at 200m/p and usually are around 500 degrees. The people had no chance
I wouldn’t leave my loved ones. I doubt the people back then were any different in their love for their spouses and children.
I remember reading something from a guy who lives in Hawaii, about when the US government mistakenly told the citizens of Hawaii that they were about to be blown to kingdom come by a North Korean missile. He and his wife, genuinely believing their time had come, stayed in bed and held each other. In their minds, they were about to die, and nothing could be done about that, so they wanted to be together at the very end.
Another guy hid in his pantry and ate all the bread in there. People are wonderful in their strangeness.
They should have got away from there when the mountains started shaking and spewing smoke it would have been doing this for a week or two
Just like today people should keep their legs closed because making children that other people have to pay taxes for even though those kids aren't going to do anything for them and now you're inhibiting other people's travel in life because of the worthless things you created cuz you couldn't keep your legs closed? You're just another nasty ho! Overpopulating our planet with useless kids it's gross! I can smell the fish from here
@@ritalawson7020they didn't know what it was back then
This program has to be at least 20 years old as of June 2020. Dr. Sigurdsson is 81 years old now. But the pyroclastic flow stuff had been known for a long time before that. It was interesting to see the result of his research. Amazing that Vesuvius erupted for 18 hours before the eruption column collapsed the first time.
Jesus.. Those poor people, what a way to go.. :(
The bit about people thinking the world had been plunged into never ending darkness is lifted directly from book 6 letter 20 from Pliny the younger to Tacitus and he was talking about the people across the bay in Misenum. I'd imagine that the people of Pompeii and Herculaneum were too busy trying to survive.
A fascinating video. Scary that such a dangerous volcano is located so close to a sprawling and growing metropolis. Nearly 4 million people live within 30km of Vesuvius today. I wonder how the Italian government and local authorities would coordinate a mass evacuation in the event of another eruption of the scale of AD79? Thankfully it seems such an eruption would not be due for at least another 100 years.
Well, I hope that's true for all their sakes😉
I saw the Pompeii exhibit at the Arizona Science Museum in Phoenix, Arizona and it was awesome. I'll have to see Pompeii sometime. I visited Santorini, Greece and toured the excavated city of Akrotiri 1998
Eerie and heartbreaking for both areas affected
This documentary really explains what happened to these poor people- rest in peace 😊
A very good forensic and detailed account of the last hours of Pompeii. Too bad that these citizens knew little of vulcanism nor of the sleeping powder keg so near their city!
True. They had no historical frame of reference since Vesuvius erupted 1300 years before but they had no idea that that had happened. nor could they have imagined what Vesuvius is capable of.
They didn't know... but we do. And almost 4 million people live there now. Oh, they have an evacuation route but you can't truly believe that'll work! We have the knowledge but we're still making the same mistakes they did
@@ljb8157 Yes I know about that. History repeats itself yet again!
@@ljb8157people are always going to be attracted to fertile ground though, and right next to a volcano is prime real estate.
@@pansprayers I understand why they're there... it just seems they should have a better plan to deal with a potential eruption other than a massive traffic jam that's going to cost millions their lives
Pompeii is a really cool place to visit! I went a couple years ago, fascinating! It's really crowded with tourist, and can become daunting to walk around.... best to sign up for
one of the walking tours so you know what your looking at. They have some of the plaster cast of the bodies their but most of the great artifacts and castings are now in a
museum in Naples. Be careful in Naples, it's not the safest city to wonder around!
I visited it this September, the “best” thing for me to come out of corona... musea and historic sites were so much less crowded and people were no longer all up in each other’s faces. Could really take it all in. It was a great experience!
@@ohreallynow I'm jealous of both of you
What is the problem with safeness of Naples ?
@@mithilagunarathne7543 pick pockets and kidnappings galore
@@mithilagunarathne7543 When I was a toddler my family (me, older sister, mother and father) went to Italy, and in Venice my sister was kidnapped. Thankfully my dad after intense searching found her by a canal with two men. My dad hates Italy ever since that experience. This was back in 94
Excellent Excellent video. Information ive never heard.
Rip to all the Pompeiins
Even at that time people were concerned of a major eruption.
I read once of a man who wanted to insure his house in case it was destroyed. His agent assured him not to worry because if there was a major eruption he would be covered!
😅😄😃😂😁 Oh my....Glad he was 'covered'.
What about the folks in Italy?! The volcano has been erupting now for quite some time and they act like it's no big deal.
When the hot cloud is streaming your way ...that's no time to think about packing, many lives would be forever lost !
Maybe one day folks will make videos of the folks in Italy who had plenty of warnings but heeded none of them.
I feel so sad for the people who had died such a terrible death. I also wonder what Emperor Titus said about Pompeii being no more.
He was very generous to the refugees of that city
As emperor, Titus is best known for completing the Colosseum and for his generosity in relieving the suffering caused by two disasters, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 and a fire in Rome in 80. After barely two years in office, Titus died of a fever on 13 September 81. He was deified by the Roman Senate and succeeded by his younger brother Domitian.
This was very interesting. I wasn't aware that two of the people in Polybius's home had Spina Bifida. Forensic archeology can tell us so much these days. I suspect Sigurdsson is right about where the bulk of the bodies are likely to be. Anyone who fled into the country would have been killed by one of the pyroclastic surges.
I didn't know about the person's with spina bifida, either. Plus I believe a young lady's skeleton was found with a near- term fetal skeleton in her pelvic area. She may have been unable to travel because of her advanced pregnancy. It is forensic anthropology which can reveal poignant details such as these that fill out the human story within the larger history of events such as the 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius.
Volcanologist...now there's an amazing field of study that not many people look into. How many of these experts do you know!? 🤷 Only this guy! His knowledge is vast... impressive, but what a gorgeous city Pompeii was. Fascinating!
I wanted to be a volcanologist when young but physical problems and familial opposition forestalled that. However I still have a huge interest in the subject and watch and read everything I can find
Pompeii was a beautiful city indeed. My family and I visited in 1960.
The woman has a voice that is easy and nice to hear
People: Build city next to volcano
Volcano: Erupts, killing thousands
People: Rebuilds next to volcano
Yeah, I don't understand that either.
....Repeat
Volcano soil is so rich fertile; also if MV was going to erupt, tech could detect and give Italians enough time to escape
That was great. I feel as though I know conclusively the mechanics of what happened.
I have never been to Pompeii, but I did get to the exhibit when it toured the US. As a child, I was fascinated by the tragic story, and read everything I could get my hands on. I still do.
This is one of the best docu's to watch! Thank you!
Excelente!!!
After the tragedy in New Zealand this week, I will never look at the victims of Vesuvius the same way. So sad.
Yes! That is exactly why I watched this video. What shocked me about all the New Zealand videos were the people standing on the beach afterwards. I cannot believe anyone even survived all that-their proximity was SO close! I am really curious to hear their stories.
MaryAnne Brown the eruption in New Zealand was small compared to the Pompeii eruption
from todays news
Nov. 21 (UPI) -- The almost perfectly preserved remains of two men -- believed to be a wealthy landowner and a younger enslaved person -- have been unearthed at the ancient Roman city of Pompeii.
Park director Massimo Ossana described the find as "truly exceptional."
Experts say the younger man was probably aged between 18 and 25 and had several compressed vertebrae, suggesting he was a manual laborer or was enslaved.
The older man is estimated to have been 30 and 40.
Found lying close together, the men are believed to escape the initial phase of the eruption, which blanketed the city in volcanic ash and pumice, but were likely killed by a blast that happened the next day.
(The photo in the article was remarkable)
Pyroclastic flow will get you every time. Not new information but very educational if you no nothing about the flow.
I think that's what happened to Herculaneum.
Indeed. since pyroclastic flows would be much faster than lava.
Night Raven it happened to both, Herculaneum just got hit first
the american school system failed me so yes it was very educational
@@nightraven5710 nah it happened to pompeii too. the difference is, pompeii was hit with a (relatively) cold flow instead of a hot one
She has a voice easy to enjoy enjoy hearing
Next up "Rediscovering The Great Wall of China".
Weeks after the Great wall was thought lost to history an epic expedition sets out to solve the riddle.
😂
wait..the great wall is still there?..even after all the purging of history by the communist,it still exist?......well call me surprised.
New research concludes the wall was actually laid block-by-block!
@@WaterShowsProd From the top down?
That was a very tragic event I hope they get a second chance in heaven 🙏
BBC did an amazing docu-drama about this. Well worth a watch.
Fantastic doc, thank you!
Question: would one be able to save themselves from a pyroclastic surge by diving in the water for a minute?
No, they travel miles across the sea.
the best documentary i've seen yet on vesuvius/pompeii
I think it is one of the worst documentaries I've seen regarding Vesuvius and Pompeii.
i agree to disagree...and you've probably seen many more than i have Cat Power...I like the layers of history/his story,her story!
@@smalltatoo Well, look up other documentaries on Pompeii and you will see what I mean. BTW, thanks for subscribing to my channel but as you can see, I have no content so I have no idea why you subbed.
@@jazzcatt ! will watch more on Pompeii..and read...and go one day!I thought this one interesting with the mention of layers of pumice and people found at different levels...In the meantime got diverted to "Krakatoa the great volcanic eruption"which was also interesting albeit a diffrent manifestation ..yet with more documented elements as it wasnt that long ago.I subscribed as i wanted to see what kind of ancient history.archeology or other things you'd be posting...kind of a facebook thing/curiosity i guess!all the best!
Very interesting documentary. Thank you
This will happen to Mt. Rainier /Seattle area. Traffic jams, hundreds fleeing. One town is built on the route the flow will take. 30 minutes max to get out. One road.
I. M. yep- I used to live in Puyallup! Very dangerous in the case of a pyroclastic surge!
It couldn't happen to a better group of communists. Wipe Seattle out and Washington state would be a decent place to live again.
Tm Divo seattlites aren’t communists. They otherwise, they wouldn’t have any need for a government or a currency.
Seattle and Naples are two cities that could wiped out. I believe mount hood is a volcano too for the Portland area.
I. M. Except the destruction will come from lahars, not pyroclastic flows
Great video💚👍
The pyroclastic cloud is about 1000+ degrees centigrade at the epicentre (100 degrees at the fringe) it instantly dry roasts/boils everything that it envelopes. If you don't roast in the epicentric surge then you asphyxiate in the surrounding area. Nobody has a penchant for sulphur, its a bit too...er...bitter for my liking. More tea vicar? Some b'stards nicked the cakes!
great....
Thank you for sharing nice posting content video
& sadly history is going to repeat itself...with even more deaths the next time this happens
Thanks for sharing this video it's so Sad That this happened Rip to all those who died on that disastrous day bless them they never stood a chance God bless them I hope more items etc be found.
Amazing video, truly amazing. ...
Let's not forget Pliny the Yonger wrote these two letters thirty years later, when he was approaching fifty. And as they've not only found charcoal text in the ruins now, that seems to put the erruption date in October, and the fact they also found calcified fruit or branches that also corroborates this, it's highly likely that Pliny got things wrong in his letters.
Linda T unlikely, you don’t really forget an event like this
The Julian and the Gregorian calendars are about 12 days apart.
Starting to get paranoid 🤓 fell asleep listening to a podcast, and woke up to a Pompeii and Herculaneum documentary.. then this comes on later..
The geologist describing modern-day victims from a pyroclastic flow is very sobering; Pompeii is fascinating but at its core it is a human tragedy.
@Ibrahim.m M-512 sounds like mlm
@@bluegenes2273 . . . It's even worse. Its Evangelicalism.
People fear the ending of the world,...but everyone of us are facing end of the world everyday....the victim of crime, disease and tragedy.
Imagine how these people met their end.
Pretty sure it was the sudden, inexplicably greedy increased number of ads that killed them.
hsiehkanusea - You are funny - thank-you! But WHY can't you people get some help w/the simple click/app that rids you of ALL ADS? (Surely you do not watch TV.................OMG...............THAT WILL kill you............) cheers
@randsterama how did you turn on ad blocker
@@abiyahabiyelbetsalel2869 forward the video to the end and then restart it. .. no ads. Or pay for premium youtube
Great Doco. Ironic there is a City alongside this beast still.
I've watched a few Pompeii videos and I have a question that seems difficult to answer. Experts say there were 6 pyroclastic flows in Pompeii as measured by the surrounding rocks, yet the bodies were found at the level of the fourth flow. But how could they have survived the first three, especially given they happened as the volcano was exploding?
Not all the flows reached the cities….a few fell short.
A few were small enough to be cooled enough for people to survive.
Plus a few layers were just massive ash falls occurring at the same time.
It was the bigger pyroclastic flows that decimated the cities.
Hmmm. I think the film explains that the 4th pyroclastic surge was the most lethal. Perhaps the others were not as hot, not as engulfing, not as oxygen depriving. Most people survived or had fled up until the 4th surge. That’s what I got from the film.
Great documentary, more adverts than mainstream TV though.
And very well made
I am nuts for all things Pompeii! I sometimes wonder if I was in the eruption in a previous life!?
Maybe you were. Not being funny saying that. Maybe we catch glimpses of past lives now and then.
Next up, " The mysteries of Herculaneum ."
Was stationed in Italy for 6 years, and have visited both places many times...it was an awesome experience.....
@@garydavis5703 I can imagine. I visited Pompeii in the 1960's but never got tje chance to see Herculaneum.
Shame that the clues the volcano was given off went ignored because they just didn’t know what that volcano was. How scary tat must of been.
Folks in Italy are doing it right now, they'll ignoring the huge volcano that's been erupting for months!!!
Mount Vesuvius was hardly a 'Legendary Volcano' at the time of the 79ce eruption. The Romans were not even remotely aware of the danger that the mountain represented. To them it was yet another (if prominent) mountain nearby.
Pliney the Elder realized what Vesuvius was due to his many travels and campaigns. Ironically this eruption happened after the celebration of Vulcan, the God of the Forge.
So may thought he was angered.
It was thought eruptions were from his work underground at a forge.
Sadly, because Vesuvius had been quiet for so long, no one knew it was a deadly volcano.
Heck, could you imagine how people would react if geologists told them a massive quake was form a giant hill that was gonna explode violently in 17 years!
Yea. Even today, people, politicians, everyone would be indignant and refuse to leave.
The aspect of the event shows that the disappearance of Pompeii was similar to the destructive events mentioned in the Qur'an, because the Qur'an particularly points to "sudden annihilation" while relating these events. For example, the "inhabitants of the city" described in Surah Yasin died all at once in a single moment. The situation is told as follows in the 29th verse of the Surah:
"It was no more then a single mighty blast, and behold! They were (like ashes) quenched and silent."
In the 31st verse of Surah al-Qamar, again the "instantaneous annihilation" is emphasized when the destruction of Thamud is recounted:
"For we sent against them a single mighty blast, and they became like the dry stubble used by one who pens cattle."
The death of the people of Pompeii took place instantaneously, just as the events recounted in the above verses
Even 2004 many died because they didn't know what a tsunami is. And here we are talking about people 2000 years ago who had no idea what a volcano is,
This is awsome
Evidently the final pyroclastic flow traveled many miles, maybe 15 or 20 miles. Most of the evacuees, traveling on crowded roads, in near pitch darkness, most likely hadn't made it that far away. Even the very early evacuees. I read that today many miles from Pompeii, in the urban sprawl of the bay of Naples, whenever they build a new highway or widen a road, they always find skeletons. Most likely the death toll was massive; maybe 10,000 or more.
2 minutes in: Was it gases? It was volcanic gases, wasn't it?
Lava and ashes over 568°
watchjerusalem.co.il/856-pompeii-echoes-of-sodom-and-gomorrah
Thanks!
Pompeil - the draw of interest is like that of a more Moxern Tragedy - The Titanic.
Agreed. And curiously enough, the newly-beginning modern excavation of Pompeii helped popularize the Roman art and architecture that was popular in the Edwardian era decor aboard the ship. Just a couple decades earlier they probably would've asymmetrically filled Titanic with Victorian gingerbread trim and oddly shaped ornaments.
What is the problem with safeness of Naples ?
Interesting. I watched another documentary that made it seem like the 4th surge was so hot they would have died instantly. But maybe they meant they surges that hit Herculaneum but Pompeii only reached 100 degrees Celsius so they would have suffered more
Still can't beat Eddie Van Halen's "Eruption"!!
Here comes the "FOR THE FIRST TIME" line again...
i've heard that researchers have now corrected the date of the eruption to October 25. It's also well known that the heat of the pyroclastic flow was what killed many people; look up thermal shock, it's horrifying. One other detail I read years ago was that a large number of people actually left Pompeii before the eruption, because they feared the earthquakes were going to destroy the town. I am not sure if further research has proven that or not.
I don't have to be faster than the pyroclastic flow, I only need to be faster than you...Damn, that only works with bears!
There is an instrument or maybe synthesized sound being used in the score here. They like to use it early on when looking at the plaster molds and the faces of the statues. Its very creepy sounding and I'd like to know what it is. Very effective.
How did it take a vulcanologist 20 years to figure this out?
35:57 - Think of Mont Pelée on Martinique in 1902 (~30,000 killed in St. Pierre) and before that, Krakatoa in 1883 (~36,000 killed) both having pyroclastic surges; the former caused by a collapsing lava dome, and the latter by the collapse of the magma chamber, creating the (second) Krakatau caldera.
I would like to see a video on Herculethium (sorry about the spelling) that I could watch in the UK!
Here in philippines, The Taal Volcano is erupting since January 12, 2020 at 2:30pm.. and its still in alert level 4 right now. January 22 2020
Be safe. Best wishes
God will safe you.nice place
15:35 I got lost in the bubbles.... I’m high 🔥💨🙌🏼
Pompeii wasn't the first large eruption of Vesuvius. Vesuvius had nine major eruptions, of these at least FOUR rated VEI-6.
Alice Sacco it’s just the most famous one
1000 bodys so far yea many more on their way leaving the town but the cost of digging everywhere is huge
What I wish to know is what would have saved them what kind of environment structure windows perhaps anyway thanks for this great video
The scene introducing Pliny the Younger misleads us to believe that lemon trees grew around the Bay at that time as they do today.
They did grow around the bay back in 79 AD! How is it misleading us?
I have watched or read several descriptions of the pyroclastic flow and resulting fossilized cavity. None of the descriptions explain the process of how the powdery ash retained the shape of the cavity. If the powder did not solidify in less than 2 weeks decomposition of the corpse would not preserve the details and shapes. Did rain in those 7 to 14 days convert the ash into a plaster? Or did the decomposition add water to the ash and help to solidify the powder into a thin crust? Any ideas?
Ummm who in the heck is in too much pain to save themselves? Toothache or die a horrific crispy? Seems an easy choice
Maybe he was taking something for pain that left him unconscious.
Thats what i thought lol like its your tooth not your legs start running
Back then toothaches could be a serious thing you couldn't just go to the dentist or get it fixed people literally died from infections in their teeth so it's quite possible that the infection spread to his jaw his skull or even his brain making him very sick and delirious
I really wish we had footage of any “apparitions” in Pompeii. If they’re there, it must be so fascinating. Have they been fleeing for centuries? Are they waiting for it to end? Are they angry? I really wonder...
They're dead. Can't be mad if you're dead. People are amazing creatures though, in the way they hang onto such thoughts.
@@pansprayers well, I certainly HOPE they’re dead. Would be weird if fleshy folks from 79AD were kicking about and saying BOO!
More like, they died tragic death with undoubtedly a ton of regrets. Look at the cases in Tōhoku Japan- after the 2011 tsunami-of ghosts being seen. That’s documented.
It’s just interesting.
A volcanic eruption is bad enough in the 21st century, when we have a fairly good understanding of what's happening. For the 1st century inhabitants of Pompeii, it's no wonder they thought the end of the world had come.
79AD no one knew much about vulcanos and they paid the sad price but today there is 6 million living around Vesuvius ....well i hope they don't act surprised when the day comes
Looked it up on IMDB. Produced in 2000.
This is what I am wondering when I watch it. Although it's new information for me, the film production doesn't seem to be recent. Thanks for your info :)
It's odd that with all the written history around the Mediterranean, there would have been stories about the volvano circulating.
Even if they didn't have a word for volcanoes, seems like at one culture would have this as part of their story-telling tradition. After all, the flood stories are older than that and they somehow survived even around the world.
Vesuvius erupted before in Roman record, in 217 BCE, and several credited writers including Strabo and Diodorus Siculus described Vesuvius as being like Etna, a well-known volcano, in just the century before the eruption (though Pliny the Elder seemed not to credit this theory, or not know of it). So it was known to be a probable volcano, but people thought it was dormant or otherwise extinct considering their reference volcanoes, Etna and Stromboli, explode in small eruptions semi-regularly and more regularly spews fire in small eruptions on their summits which Vesuvius does not.
They actually found preserved (in ash) footprints from 10,000 years ago, of a person fleeing an eruption.
Humans tend to have short memories when it comes to disasters.
The children of survivors seem indignant/unbelieving of their elders stories….especially before writing was popular. After a few generations, the event is often forgotten about.
Heck, the existence of Pompeii became a legend, a myth…..until a well was dug in the right place.
Heck, look at the Legend of Troy. No one believed it existed. Until a young grocery bagger with big dreams decided to prove its existence.
We are actually finding tons of remains of forgotten cities using satellite technology and radar.
Who knows. We may find Atlantis just yet!