TV Recommendation: Bettany Hughes' Pompeii: Secrets of the Dead.
I recently watched Bettany Hughes’ documentary which focused on the victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD (the documentary is currently on my5 and was broadcast on Thursday the 28th October). As a big fan of her documentaries, I was intrigued to see what this documentary would entail. I have watched many of Bettany’s programmes, including the various ancient Egypt documentaries, as well as ones including Ancient Greece, and lastly Rome/Pompeii and they have all been equally fascinating/interesting. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD has been coined as ‘one of the deadliest eruptions in Europe’. Many of Pompeii, Oplontis, and Stabiae’s inhabitants were buried under ash, whilst Lapilli and Herculaneum were buried under a mudflow (taken from here ). Furthermore, an article written by Jessica Ball stated that the eruption killed more than 16,000 people due to the ash, mud, and rocks that rained down o...