Roman Apocalypse: Pompeii 79 AD (TRIH ep 355)
79 · Resource
This episode of The Rest Is History, hosted by Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, examines Mount Vesuvius and the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Drawing on the eyewitness letters of Pliny the Younger, archaeological evidence and volcanology, the hosts reconstruct the two-day catastrophe: precursory earthquakes, the enormous ash column described as a pine-like/mushroom cloud, heavy pumice fall that darkened midday skies, and subsequent deadly pyroclastic surges that obliterated Hercul...
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Around 79
- Jesus of Nazareth (4 BCE)
- Crucifixion of Jesus (33)
- Reign of Nero (54)
- Reign of Marcus Aurelius (161)
- Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem (70)
- Roman conquest of Britain (43)
- Reign of Trajan (98)
- Saint Paul (5)
- Reign of Tiberius (14)
- Paul's missionary journeys (48)