[00:00.00]By 1748,arshaeologists had begun to uncover,

[00:06.19]one of the most important archaeological sites

[00:08.39]in the world.

[00:10.18]They had started to uncover the ancient city

[00:12.78]of Pompeii.

[00:15.47]Pompeii is like a "time capsule"preserving

[00:19.31]a frozen menment in his tory.

[00:22.44]Before the eruption,

[00:23.60]it had been a thriving Roman city with temples,

[00:26.99]markets,restaurants and theatres,

[00:30.42]Today you can visit these buildings ,

[00:32.78]by walking along the original streets

[00:34.54]of the city.You can also see works of art,

[00:38.15]such as statues and colourful mosaics on walls,

[00:42.61]and you can see objects that people used

[00:44.60]in everyday life,

[00:46.22]such as tools and kitchen utensils.

[00:50.30]But much more than buildings and objects,

[00:53.37]it is the forms of the people

[00:54.89]who were caught in the disaster,

[00:56.72]that have captured the imaginations of

[00:58.54]millions of people across the world.

[01:02.47]The bodies of people who died in Pompeii,

[01:04.95]had decayed many centuries before

[01:07.04]archaelolgists arrived.

[01:09.56]But these bodies had left an impression

[01:11.27]in the ash,that showed their exact shapes.

[01:15.35]We can see people huddled together

[01:17.37]to comfort each other

[01:18.52]in their last hours of life.

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