Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

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Yeah. The way I put it is, it's like seeing with two eyes. If you see just with Pompeii, you have no perspective. If you've got Pompeii and Herculaneum, like eyes, they're quite close together. but they're not exactly the same perspective. And it just gives depth to your view of the ancient world.

Yeah. The way I put it is, it's like seeing with two eyes. If you see just with Pompeii, you have no perspective. If you've got Pompeii and Herculaneum, like eyes, they're quite close together. but they're not exactly the same perspective. And it just gives depth to your view of the ancient world.

Yeah. The way I put it is, it's like seeing with two eyes. If you see just with Pompeii, you have no perspective. If you've got Pompeii and Herculaneum, like eyes, they're quite close together. but they're not exactly the same perspective. And it just gives depth to your view of the ancient world.

One of the extraordinary things is that though they're so close together and close to the same volcano, The effects of the eruption are significantly different in the two places. And that's part of what gives you that deeper perspective.

One of the extraordinary things is that though they're so close together and close to the same volcano, The effects of the eruption are significantly different in the two places. And that's part of what gives you that deeper perspective.

One of the extraordinary things is that though they're so close together and close to the same volcano, The effects of the eruption are significantly different in the two places. And that's part of what gives you that deeper perspective.

Because in Herculaneum, if you'd like me to elaborate on this, of course, in Herculaneum, you're under a pyroclastic flow which covers everything in what's initially gas and dust, but sets into rock. Whereas Pompeii is covered with these tiny little pumice pebbles. That's just a weirdness of how a volcano works. You know, there's a third possible effect, which is a lava flow.

Because in Herculaneum, if you'd like me to elaborate on this, of course, in Herculaneum, you're under a pyroclastic flow which covers everything in what's initially gas and dust, but sets into rock. Whereas Pompeii is covered with these tiny little pumice pebbles. That's just a weirdness of how a volcano works. You know, there's a third possible effect, which is a lava flow.

Because in Herculaneum, if you'd like me to elaborate on this, of course, in Herculaneum, you're under a pyroclastic flow which covers everything in what's initially gas and dust, but sets into rock. Whereas Pompeii is covered with these tiny little pumice pebbles. That's just a weirdness of how a volcano works. You know, there's a third possible effect, which is a lava flow.

And that mercifully is what did not happen. We always think in terms of lava, of volcanoes. If something gets covered in lava, bye-bye. You won't see it again. It's become part of the rock. But this pyroclastic flow that covers Herculaneum is a very soft rock. And it's brilliant for preserving things really well, and preserving things including organic materials, wood especially.

And that mercifully is what did not happen. We always think in terms of lava, of volcanoes. If something gets covered in lava, bye-bye. You won't see it again. It's become part of the rock. But this pyroclastic flow that covers Herculaneum is a very soft rock. And it's brilliant for preserving things really well, and preserving things including organic materials, wood especially.

And that mercifully is what did not happen. We always think in terms of lava, of volcanoes. If something gets covered in lava, bye-bye. You won't see it again. It's become part of the rock. But this pyroclastic flow that covers Herculaneum is a very soft rock. And it's brilliant for preserving things really well, and preserving things including organic materials, wood especially.

Yes, it's location, location, location. Just a tiny difference, but it's marginally closer to the crater and it happens to be in a slightly different to the west of the crater rather than the south of the crater. And just as the eruption happened, imagine the enormous, not only the enormous force of an eruption, but the enormous randomness.

Yes, it's location, location, location. Just a tiny difference, but it's marginally closer to the crater and it happens to be in a slightly different to the west of the crater rather than the south of the crater. And just as the eruption happened, imagine the enormous, not only the enormous force of an eruption, but the enormous randomness.

Yes, it's location, location, location. Just a tiny difference, but it's marginally closer to the crater and it happens to be in a slightly different to the west of the crater rather than the south of the crater. And just as the eruption happened, imagine the enormous, not only the enormous force of an eruption, but the enormous randomness.

You've got great swirling clouds of heaven knows what happening, changing through time. And what the experts say, and the experts are people who come from Iceland, which I'm really interested in, because you can see volcanoes in action in Iceland. And they know that you have all sorts of different effects.

You've got great swirling clouds of heaven knows what happening, changing through time. And what the experts say, and the experts are people who come from Iceland, which I'm really interested in, because you can see volcanoes in action in Iceland. And they know that you have all sorts of different effects.