What if you woke up to a beautiful morning, had breakfast with your family, and by midnight you were frozen in time for two thousand years? On August 24th, 79 AD, the people of Pompeii had no idea their volcano was about to explode. This episode walks you through that final day — hour by hour, choice by choice — and shows you why this ancient disaster still haunts us today.

In this episode: - Mount Vesuvius erupted with the force of 100,000 atomic bombs, burying Pompeii in 20 feet of ash and pumice in just 24 hours - The city was completely forgotten for 1,500 years until farmers accidentally dug it up in 1748 - Archaeologists found preserved bodies, graffiti on walls, and even loaves of bread still sitting in ovens - More than 1,000 people died in Pompeii that day, but the ash preserved their final moments like a snapshot  ...