Assignment Discovery: Pompeii's Destruction
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In just eighteen hours Mt. Vesuvius spewed more than ten billion tons of rock killing five thousand people and burying all traces of Pompeii. Learn more about the destruction of Pompeii in 79 AD on... (more info)

In just eighteen hours Mt. Vesuvius spewed more than ten billion tons of rock killing five thousand people and burying all traces of Pompeii. Learn more about the destruction of Pompeii in 79 AD on Discovery Channel's "Assignment Discovery."

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