10/16/2026
Our third encounter brings us to historyโs most famous ghost town: Pompeii, in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius.
In the decades after the turn of the first millennium, Pompeii was a wealthy suburban town of some 15,000 souls. That all changed in 79 CE, when Vesuvius erupted violently, sending waves of superheated rock, pumice, and volcanic ash surging towards the unlucky hamlet.
In a matter of hours, Pompeii was entirely buried under 20 feet of ash. Thousands were unable to escape the blast and perished where they stood. The ash preserved much of the town exactly as it was at the moment of the eruption, and when explorers began to systematically uncover Pompeii in the 18th century, their efforts set the stage for modern archaeology.
During both our ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ ๐๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐บ & ๐๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ญ๐บ and ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐บ tours, we visit this haunting site, where lavish homes, businesses, decorative frescoes, and even the plaster molds of some unlucky victims remain in much the same state as they were when they were buried nearly two millennia ago.
