The Washington Post, January 30th, 2005
Mount Vesuvius, slumbering for more than 1,800 years, was stirring. Its rumblings set off mild tremors that may have rattled dishes, a warning sign of the danger to come. But the people of Pompeii could not have known what was ahead on that August day in A.D. 79. They were unaware that the mountain was even a volcano -- in fact, there was no word in Latin for "volcano." Their fates unfold in Discovery's "Pompeii: The Last Day," which combines dramatic reconstructions, based on science and history, with impressive special effects. "We went to archaeologists and asked them: 'Who are the charact...
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