🌋 POMPEII — THEN AND NOW 🌋 Once a vibrant Roman city full of laughter, trade, and luxury… Pompeii (Pompei) vanished in a single day. In 79 AD, under Emperor Titus (Tito Flavio Vespasiano), Mount Vesuvius (Monte Vesuvio) erupted — and the world went silent. Ash blackened the sky. People ran, prayed, and froze in time — their final moments preserved beneath the earth. Centuries later, archaeologists uncovered an entire city — streets, homes, frescoes, even the bodies — frozen exactly as they wer