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Italy travel: Pompeii. Most of our Perillo Tours Familia is visible in this segment, as we meet a resident of Pompeii. You can see the anguish, as he was caught in the painful last gasps of life. Wow. Mt. Vesuvius had been proclaimed an extinct volcano by the experts of the day, so the eruption was quite a surprise to the residents of Pompeii. They didn’t have time to escape. With some clever techniques, archaeologists were able to pour plaster molds of the residents of Pompeii where they …
Italy travel: Pompeii resident’s last gasps
August 15th, 2009 
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Although historically fascinating, there’s something unsettling about digging up a graveyard, which is what the city had become.
u can get a guided tour of the place r walk around urself there is certain spots that u cant get into but u can walk into 90% of the buildings its a really big place u could spend all day there
im thinking of going there this summer… what is it really like can you get right in there? or is it kind of an interpretive center? i want to wander the actual place…
This place mistifies me, i’d love to go there one day. Preferably at a time the volcano doesn’t decide to errupt again though.
was in pompeii 2 days ago its some place best trip ever
A fascinating video and tour, I’m sure! The face of the first victim shown looked rather odd: it was showing features of teeth and eyes such as I’ve not seen in pictures from the other preserved figures, almost as if someone had fashioned them somewhere along the way!
Thanks for sharing your trip with us.
I would like to go to this place one day..what a very interesting place to pay a visit to…this is great
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cool how much did it cost? good use of censership
Yes, Pompeii is in Italy, close to Naples, and well worth the trip. Thanks for the comment!
Were you in Itly?