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The World's Greatest Archaeological Discoveries - Season 1 Episode 2 Pompeii
0.00 90 minutes In the year 79 A.D., Mount Vesuvius erupted burying the metropolis of Pompeii under a thick layer of ash and rock. The ruins were discovered by a topographic engineer in 1748. In this episode, historian Dan Snow enters this archaeological time capsule to answer a question that has intrigued the whole world, what happened in the last hours of Pompeii?
