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First broadcast in cinemas, Pompeii Live transports you back to AD 79 to discover how life was transformed in just 24 hours, when these two cities in the Bay of Naples, southern Italy, were buried by a catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
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00:07Two ordinary cities, one extraordinary day.
00:14Two thousand years ago, in just a few hours, the people of Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried in volcanic ash,
00:22preserved for generations.
00:28Experience the story of that devastating day through the lives of the people who were there, and the remarkable objects
00:34they left behind.
00:39Book now for the cultural event of the summer, your own exclusive private view, broadcast live from the British Museum.
00:54The New York Times
00:56The New York Times

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