Pompeii Buried Alive

The subtitles in this page are based on those made by Esther Premkumar, Dwi Rianto and Claude Almansi in http://www.amara.org/en/videos/0p0B0ceB1VdU/info/pompeii-buried-alive/ - where the video no longer works because the original has been deleted from YouTube.
The original video streaming here is slightly different, in that it has an intro the other video lacked.

So we uploaded a copy of the working video on YouTube privately, then had YouTube's software re-sync the transcript derived from the English subs we had made (the copy will be deleted shortly).
Then we created this page by streaming the working video, uploaded the English subs produced by the YT re-syncing - and now we'll see what happens when we upload the existing Spanish and Indonesian subs as text transcripts (without time-codes)

A look at the 79A.D. tragedy that wiped out the entire city of Popelli when Mount Vesuvius erupted. The entire city was covered in ash and the entire event was known as one of the darkest days in history but ages later the city was discovered and scientists were able to really see what happened as many of the people were buried by the ash and preserved to be studied. This episode is especially entertaining and especially if you haven't heard too much about the actual event. Broke down into five acts, the first three are the most entertaining as they look at Pompelli, the actual volcano and the city of Herculaneum, which was also destroyed but preserved. The actual photos are quite haunting but it's just amazing to see how well the dead bodies were preserved. It's especially creepy because you can almost see the pain on the faces as these people faced death. Just check out the scene where a 14-year-old slave girl is trying to protect a young baby. The last two chapters aren't nearly as interesting because they get away from the subject at hand to look at Roman culture.

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[Leonard Nimoy] Depuis une éternité, le cône volcanique du Vésuve

a dominé le paysage de l'Italie du sud.

Il y a deux mille ans, il a changé l'histoire.

Alors, Rome était un empire tout-puissant.

Pompeii était une des plus prospères villes provinciales, florissant au pied de Vesuvius.

(Bruit d'explosion)

Soudain, une explosion terrible a fait trembler la terre et le Vésuve est entré dans les annales

comme l'une des catastrophes volcaniques les plus dévastatrices dont nous ayons trace.

Les gens couraient pour se sauver. Certains s'abritèrent chez eux. D'autres essayèrent de fuir vers la mer voisine.

Mais des milliers d'entre eux ne survécurent pas.

En quelques heures, des maisons, des édifices et les gens eux-mêmes furent recouverts

d'une couche épaisse de cendres et de débris volcaniques.

Tout fut enseveli et oublié, dans un silence inconnu de plusieurs siècles.

Les archéologues découvrirent les creux que les corps désintégrés avaient laissés.

Ils furent utilisé comme moules pour produire des répliques de plâtre des victimes.