How ancient Pompeii was rediscovered
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Welcome to the History Extra podcast. Today, in the third installment of our Sunday series chronicling the tragic final days of Pompeii, we're going to return to Jess Venner and Kev Lochan who are going to explore what happened after Vesuvius erupted and how the city eventually became the archaeological marvel we know today. Once a thriving Roman city, life stopped suddenly in Pompeii in AD seventy nine when the nearby volcano Vesuvius erupted, burying its inhabitants and preserving their world underneath meters of ash. I'm Kevlochan and I'm joined by Dr. Jess Venner, a historian of the Roman world and an expert on Pompeii.
Welcome back, Jess. Thank you. Today we're going to be talking about the aftermath of the eruption. How is it viewed in Rome and how long does it take for that news of the disaster that's performed in the Bay of Naples to actually reach the eternal city? Yes, so it's very rapid.
They would have been sending messages to Rome, probably on very fast horses. So I imagine they would have found out pretty quick. Obviously, people were also moving themselves too. But they realized quite quickly that there was a terrible, terrible thing that had happened. The Emperor Titus
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