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Pompeii: Where the Living Turned to Stone
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It happened in an instant. A roar from the earth, the sky turned black—and then silence.
The ancient city of Pompeii was buried alive in 79 AD beneath a tidal wave of ash and fire, its people frozen in their final, desperate moments. Some cowered. Others ran. None escaped. The pyroclastic surge hit at 400 miles per hour—incinerating, suffocating, and sealing a vibrant Roman world in a tomb of volcanic ash.
Two thousand years later, the city still stands—walls whispering stories, shadows etched into stone. Loaves of bread still sit in ovens. Mosaics still gleam. And the dead... still reach out from the dust.
But Pompeii is older than most believe. Its destruction was only the final chapter in a long, haunted history.
Join Keith as he walks you through the ash-covered ruins and into the eerie stillness of a city locked forever in the moment of its death. This isn’t just archaeology—it’s a mass grave with a pulse.
Pompeii didn’t vanish. It waits.
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