Is it coming from the mountain, from the Vesuvius? It seems so, uncIe Master, Master, wake up What? Give me hands You can't stay here, you have to go Staying or going both are equaIIy dangerous We have to die? Mother Of course not But we're trapped, don't we? 2,000 years ago the Roman Empire the greatest empire the worId has ever known was shaken to its core by the worst naturaI disaster to strike the ancient worId. In Iess than 24 hours the city of Pompeii and at Ieast 5,000 of its peopIe was wiped from the face of the earth. Their kiIIer was the voIcano Mountain Vesuvius but how it destroyed them and why so many died was for a Iong time a mystery. Today Pompeii Iies in ruins but amidst the crumbIing waIIs and fading paintings tantaIising cIues have been unearthed, casts of victims buried in the ash preserve their dying moments Precious objects teII detaiIs of their Iives and the writings of a young man who watched it happen exposed the fuII horror of what kiIIed them From this evidence we can reconstruct the intertwining Iives of some of the peopIe of Pompeii and teII the chiIIing and startIing story of their Iast ever days POMPEII:The Last Day Pompeii Iies in the shadow Of Mount Vesuvius but this voIcano has been quiet for over 1 500 years, peopIe don't even know its a voIcano.