Rome Unwrapped - Pompeii - 4K

YouTube ^ | July 18, 2024 | Atlantic Productions

[SunkenCiv]

This is the story of a disaster like no other. When Mount Vesuvius erupted, it rained 7 million tonnes of debris onto Pompeii it sealed the fate of more than a thousand people. But it also sealed the city form the world: preserved it, protected it, like nowhere else on earth, the rediscovered Pompeii gives us access to the ancient world. And now, with new findings and new insights, we can tell the story of the ordinary people caught up in this disaster. These are the forgotten men and women who lived when Rome ruled and were buried when the volcano blew.

Rome Unwrapped - Pompeii - 4K | 50:25
Atlantic Productions | 8.56K subscribers | 5,610 views | July 18, 2024

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[Paal Gulli]

The irony is that the same vulcanism that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum was elemental in the building of the classic Roman civilization. The famous and indispensable Roman concrete relied on “tufa” (tuff) for an aggregate, and tuff is formed when ash is ejected in volcanic eruption, falls to earth and lithifies. The Colosseum, the Pantheon, Castel Sant’Angelo and about a gazillion other Roman structures were made using tuff, and scoria, and other pyroclastic materials.

Vulcan giveth and Vulcan taketh away. Is it any wonder the Romans made him a god?