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Pompeii: The Last Day
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Pompeii: The Last brings to life one of the greatest natural disasters in the history of mankind.
It is a dramatized documentary that tells of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on 24 August 79 AD, portraying its different phases of eruption, which continued for over 24 hours.
This eruption covered the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in ash and pumice, killing all those trapped between the volcano and the sea. Day turning into night as 4 billion tons of pumice, rock, and ash burst forth from Vesuvius.
This film use uses archaeological evidence, including the writings of one survivor, to unravel the mystery of those final hours and its impact on the lives of the people as they saw the tragedy unfold before their eyes.
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so about 2079 pomeiians need to get the hell out of there! That is so go n on my calendar if im still alive then. I don’t care how inactive or active a volcano is I would not live there. I wouldnt live anywhere where earthquakes, hurricanes, or tsunamis hit either. Or monsoons.
theres another documentary where they discovered skeletons in a wine cellar & did tests on them because the plaster on the molds destroyed the bones. and they suffocated. so it was thick enough to avoid the bone fractures(like in Herculaneum) or their organs exploding but nobody could escape the carbon monoxide gas or gas that basically turned your insides into cement unless u escaped after the earthquakes b4 the eruption. u’d have to b @ a certain radius to survive that. like pliny the younger
i enjoyed this with the actors as if they are alive again. i’ve heard the stories of Pompeii and the info you have is a little different from what I’ve read in Archaeology Magazines, not to say that this info isn’t correct. i’ve been looking for this for a while and am glad i found this. thanx. i believe the ancient people were very smart and their homes are so much more creative than homes we have in our modern world.
if all of you thnk its only a natural hazard and Godz existence has nthng to do wth it.thn how’l you justify the survival of noah while his nation drowned in flood for not believing,how will you justify effacing of luts nation (sodom and gomorah on youtube) and destroyal of nation of salih…the only survivors were MUSLIMS..noah,salih.lut.jesus,mary.muhammad,they are all muslims.wakeup my brothers and sisters get a copy of Quran before you die God will never let non-believers enter paradise.
u can easily justify such displays of Godz wrath with primitive reasoning today,but il answer you with words of God from Quran; if you all deny(existence of God,day of ressurection)so infact many nations before you denied too,and the Prophets duty is only to convey the Message of God.29:18.another verse; he punishes whom he wills and is merciful on whom he wills,and to him you all shall be returned(the moment death angels come for u )29:21
The cloud of the volcano, in contact with air, it solidifies and falls down, in the form of “rain” of pumice mixed with volcanic ash and rocks, even of large size, which was detached from the inside of the volcano, of the eruptive force.
so weird watching this, then actually going to Pompeii and seeing all the ruins for yourself, such a surreal place, no idea how to feel, you’re in a famous historical place which fascinates so many, and yet everywhere you walk someone might have died in the very spot you’re standing ..
My mother came from this region. Their legends went back a very long time.. but expecting any culture to remember something that happened more than a thousand yrs before without books or writings of any kind is a stretch. Italy in the second Millennium BC was mostly preliterate. I don’t think there were even Greeks there at that time. Magna Graecia was later.
I honestly have looked – and can’t find any either on line or in my Latin dictionary. They knew about craters of fire and there are fields of fire near Pozzuoli (Sofatara) .. and there had been an eruption in the second Millennium BC.. look up the Avellino eruption. But that had been too long ago for the Classical Romans to remember.. that is like us remembering something that happened in the dark ages. Perhaps its just they didn’t have our mindset and thought of them as entrances to Hades?
It didn’t help .. there are several good videos on various groups of skeletons being found either in deep cellars or in one case, what seems to be a boat house– look for them… but the temperatures were too extreme (500F), particularly the night of the 24th during the pyroclastic flows. Also, they were just plainly buried alive if they survived all that in nearly 72 ft of debris. These towns really disappeared. Really wiped off the map of the earth until 1700s
No, it’s a natural working of Nature, scientifically explained in every way. When a part of the earth’s upper mantle or lower crust melts, magma forms. A volcano is essentially an opening or a vent through which this magma and the dissolved gases it contains are discharged. For your opinion to be valid, I would begin to question why America has not suffered a similar fate, for it is far worse off in terms of “Sin” Than Pompeii ever could be.
We are not just what we think we are or not, as I assume odnboy else can tell you how real your world feels but you, you should have realized then that NOBODY can tell you what your higher self is . Have you ever asked yourself if it would be possible to stop assuming your world as it is ?. There is not a single truth on this planet, and there is not a single lie either. Become aware of that which you assume the most and realize how you can choose.
These people didn’t even have a warning. They did not even know what a Volcano is…there is no Latin word for the word “Volcano”….they were taken by surprise which is why some of the ppl you see plastered in ash are sitting in regular positions, and on some of them you can actually see the fright and surprise in their faces. There is a table preserved there with the food and plates, I don’t think someone planning a Volcano eruption will be preparing for a nice meal lol
@godkingRoss If it’s healthy for EVERYONE to show disdain (i.e. Brits, Romans, Kenyans, everyone…) then is it a healthy ATTITUDE, rather one group being better than another? Why is it healthy? If a Brit could go to Kenya and influence their culture, would that be bad? Why? Would a Brit in Kenya threaten their culture? Is that cos Kenyan culture is better? Or is it just that no culture should be changed by an outside culture? If so, does that mean that cultures should not develop?
@CombatArmsPeteFredlo OMG, you can’t be serious! Helpless people, who’d never heard of your Jesus? How is that a godly thing to do? If your God does evil things like that, why do you worship him? Gods can’t survive without worship.
This is not accurate. The eruption didnt happen like that, with no warning. Many ppl knew it was coming and had left. All the fish were dead, poisoned by sulphuric acid, the wells were dry, the mountain shaking and smoking and earth tremors common. And they did know it was a volcano, the geographer Strabo had identified it as one about 300 years earlier, but they had believed it extinct. So it wasn’t ‘like any other day’. They were expecting another earthquake like the one in AD63
@simbakafiri We DO have heads. They’re attached to our necks. And when a did a woman make a bad critical decision in this documentary? Doing nothing is worse than doing something and being wrong. As the narrator so eloquently put; this is a time for decisive action. And besides; you could have made all the right decisions in record time and still have died. Who got out was largely based on who had luck’s favour than on who choose right. (And who choose right was largely luck and chance anyway).
@Saada706 Done a lot of favours for people? Or not? Your profession. How much money do you have? What/who do you own? What skills have you accumulated? Where do you live? Do you know your way around the city? Are you fit and healthy? …… The choices people made (based on their current situation, past experiences and personality) dictated who lived and who died. And if they did die, how they died. Pumice would have been a featuring factor.
@Saada706 Were you a slave, freedman, citizen or aristocrat, etc.? Were you wealthy or poor? Were you married? Was your wife pregnant? Did you have children to look out for? Your character, predispositions, and priorities. Are you loyal? Are you complacent? Careless? Unhurried? Too attached to your wealth? Calm? Panicked? Well prepared? Fast thinking? Compassionate? Self-sacrificial? Ruthless? Your friends and allies. Were you popular? Wealthy? Lots of connections?
@Saada706 Even falling pumice stones were a danger. And they were a danger in their own right. Ever stood in a hailstorm? Hail hurts. Pumice would have been significantly worse. And some of the bigger pieces were certainly capable of causing minor injuries. And let’s not forget that, in many cases, whether you lived or died was dictated by many different factors conspiring together to produce a certain outcome. For example: your social, economical, and marital statuses.