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The morning began like any other. A busy Roman port, bread rising in the ovens, graffiti on the walls, a green mountain on the horizon nobody feared.
By the next dawn, Pompeii was gone.
This is the last day of Pompeii — told hour by hour, through the people who lived it and one teenager across the bay who couldn’t look away. The rain of pumice. The roofs that fell first. The admiral who sailed toward the eruption. The killing cloud. And the plaster casts that still hold their final second, two thousand years later.
We also dig into the mysteries scientists still argue about: the eruption’s real date (was it even August?), how the people actually died, and why Vesuvius — still active, with three million people in its shadow — is a warning, not just a memory.
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