Bettany Hughes has uncovered shocking evidence about King Tut's murdered mother - she discovered new signs of the malaria he suffered from and the crippled condition of his leg.
79 AD / AD - Mount Vesuvius is about to explode. Bettany follows the lives of five victims - a little boy, a soldier, a pregnant woman, a slave and a caretaker - and pieces together the fragments of their lives over the last 24 hours.
Using the latest geological and forensic research, Bettany reveals the sequence of events surrounding the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, the climax that causes our characters' deaths, and the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
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