Pompeii's survival over nearly two millennia makes it one of the most important sites of historical, archaeological, and human significance in the world it’s also Italy's second most-visited attraction.

The stories of this Roman town not far from the shore would never die. The left behind people of Pompeii - its lovers and rivals, its merchants and slaves, its rich and its poor - had no chance.Īnd yet, the very act which destroyed Pompeii with such callous, brutal efficiency under an avalanche of ash and stone, would preserve it for the ages. The atmosphere turned into a fatal pressure cooker thick with heat, gas, and fury. In a rage which would echo through the centuries, fire and brimstone ripped from its pitted depths and tore toward the heavens. Others did not not, through choice, necessity, infirmity or stubbornness.

Most read the runes and departed by land or sea as the growls and tremors of their mountain deepened. Pompeii was not the grand court of Emperors or a citadel of tyrants, but rather a place of busy streets, rowdy taverns and normal people who broke bread with family and simply dreamy of what tomorrow would bring. The mountain which loomed over the bay, long restful, had started to rumble with the discontent of a fever dream.

It must have felt like the world was ending.īefore the skies turned black on that fateful day in late summer or early autumn, there had been warning signs of what was to come in this town of traders not far from the shore.

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