POMPEII: The City That Disappeared Overnight | Animated Documentary

In 79 AD, Pompeii was a busy Roman city of around 11,000 people. By the next morning, it had disappeared. 🌋 This animated documentary follows the last day of Pompeii, hour by hour: the quiet morning, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius at around 1 PM, the pumice that fell all night, the pyroclastic flows that reached Herculaneum and Pompeii, and the eyewitness account of Pliny the Younger, the only one that survives. Then the story of how the city was found again, centuries later, almost exactly as it was left. Chapters 00:00 A City by the Sea 01:12 Warnings 01:40 The Last Morning 02:16 1 PM: The Cloud 02:56 Stones from the Sky 03:34 The Admiral 04:18 The Last Hours 05:24 Found Again Sources: the letters of Pliny the Younger to Tacitus, and published research from the Pompeii Archaeological Park. The exact date of the eruption is still debated by historians. New true stories every month. Subscribe so you don't miss the next one. 📜 #Pompeii #AnimatedDocumentary #History