From around 2pm, larger chunks of pumice - a porous volcanic rock - began to rain down. This is when Pompeii and its people started to be crushed, as slabs up to nine feet thick crashed onto the ...

was in the path of the catastrophic tidal wave of volcanic debris from Mount Vesuvius's eruption in AD79, which left Pompeii perfectly preserved under a blanket of ash and pumice. Inside were the ...

But before the volcano unleashed its torrent of rock, ash and toxic gases, Pompeii was just another Roman town on the coast of the Mediterranean. What was daily life like for the residents of ...