Pompeii Destroyed      To view a video, click on your connection speed (56k or 300k)
Location: Italy   Length: 13 min.        56k      300k      56k      300k
The Roman city of Pompeii, a prosperous, bustling center of activity in theancient world, was frozen in time under a rain of volcanic debris on August 24 in the year A.D. 79.  Today, the remarkably preserved ruins of the city and the personal effects abandoned in haste recall the lives of ordinary Roman citizens in a uniquely vivid way.  Complete with a re-enactment of the horrible last moments, this video describes the city and its people and what they were doing on that fateful day.