The Victims of Vesuvius

This final episode of a three-part series exploring the intertwined histories of Pompeii and Vesuvius investigates how the remains of the eruption's victims illuminate their lives - and their deaths.
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:29 The rediscovery of Pompeii
1:00 The first bodies
1:38 Victims in the Villa of Diomedes
2:40 Magellan TV
3:33 The plaster casts of Pompeii
4:30 Skeletons of Herculaneum
5:24 A Pompeiian family
6:09 The victims of Vesuvius
7:02 Looking down from the volcano