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Episode "Doomsday Pompeii"

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  • CGI Image: Magma creeping up from the Magma Chamber and up to Mount Vesuvius before its eruption.
  • CGI Image: The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The city was lost under ash and pumice for nearly 1,600 years.
  • Archaeologist Elizabeth Fentress walking through the Pompeii Forum and deciphering the archeological evidence that points to the Forum as a place where slaves were auctioned.
  • CGI Image: The City of Pompeii before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The volcano buried the city in meters of ash in 79 AD.
  • CGI Image: Magma coming up from the Magma Chamber at Mount Vesuvius. An earthquake had occurred 17 years before the eruption, but people thought these acts of nature were caused by the gods.
  • Plaster casts of bodies which allowed archaeologist to see how people were buried by ash during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The ash preserved Roman life at the height of the Roman Empire.
  • CGI Image: A cross section of Mount Vesuvius exploding in 79 AD.
  • CGI Image: The streets of Pompeii before the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius that buried the city in ash. The city was re-discovered after being lost for nearly 1,600 years in 1599.
  • Forensic Anthropologist Heather Bonney in the Bone Lab explaining the history of the skeleton of a slave that was found with shackles around his ankles.
  • Slave barracks ruins being excavated by archaeologists. The ash from Mount Vesuvius preserved all aspects of Roman life. The volcano did not discriminate and buried both the rich and the poor.
  • CGI Image: Mount Vesuvius was thought to be just a quiet hill covered in grass and trees.
  • The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, also known as the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus. was the most important temple in Ancient Rome, located on the Capitoline Hill.

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    CGI Image: Magma creeping up from the Magma Chamber and up to Mount Vesuvius before its eruption.

  • 4721_WRR-doomsday-pompeii-12_04700300

    CGI Image: The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The city was lost under ash and pumice for nearly 1,600 years.

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    Archaeologist Elizabeth Fentress walking through the Pompeii Forum and deciphering the archeological evidence that points to the Forum as a place where slaves were auctioned.

  • 4721_WRR-doomsday-pompeii-07_04700300

    CGI Image: The City of Pompeii before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The volcano buried the city in meters of ash in 79 AD.

  • 4721_WRR-doomsday-pompeii-09_04700300

    CGI Image: Magma coming up from the Magma Chamber at Mount Vesuvius. An earthquake had occurred 17 years before the eruption, but people thought these acts of nature were caused by the gods.

  • 4721_WRR-doomsday-pompeii-01_04700300

    Plaster casts of bodies which allowed archaeologist to see how people were buried by ash during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The ash preserved Roman life at the height of the Roman Empire.

  • 4721_WRR-doomsday-pompeii-11_04700300

    CGI Image: A cross section of Mount Vesuvius exploding in 79 AD.

  • 4721_WRR-doomsday-pompeii-08_04700300

    CGI Image: The streets of Pompeii before the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius that buried the city in ash. The city was re-discovered after being lost for nearly 1,600 years in 1599.

  • 4721_WRR-doomsday-pompeii-03_04700300

    Forensic Anthropologist Heather Bonney in the Bone Lab explaining the history of the skeleton of a slave that was found with shackles around his ankles.

  • 4721_WRR-doomsday-pompeii-04_04700300

    Slave barracks ruins being excavated by archaeologists. The ash from Mount Vesuvius preserved all aspects of Roman life. The volcano did not discriminate and buried both the rich and the poor.

  • 4721_WRR-doomsday-pompeii-06_04700300

    CGI Image: Mount Vesuvius was thought to be just a quiet hill covered in grass and trees.

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    The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, also known as the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus. was the most important temple in Ancient Rome, located on the Capitoline Hill.

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