History Hit's Tristan Hughes explores the destruction of Pompeii, using extraordinary eyewitness testimony and the revelations of archaeology to understand what really happened here nearly 2000 years ...
Pompeii has long fascinated archaeologists and travelers alike, its ruins offering a vivid snapshot of Roman life paused by ...
“Many disasters have befallen the world, but few have brought posterity so much joy,” wrote the German poet Goethe after touring Pompeii’s ruins in the 1780s, some 40 years after its rediscovery.