Gooday. I'm Gary Stevens. Welcome to the afterlife of the History in the Bible podcast.

Afterlight Detour 6. Surviving Vesuvius

I always thought that the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Roman imperial time

not only destroyed the city of Pompeii, but all its inhabitants.

Turns out that quite a lot of people escaped. In this detour episode,

join Bernie Mayapolski of the fan of History podcast and I, as we find out who died and who

escaped. You can find Bernie's show at shows.acast.com slash history.

And in the show notes, you can also find Bernie's new YouTube channel.

Well, the future's a mystery, but what's new in history?

I'm here with one of my favorite podcast

host, Gary Stevens. Happy New Year and happy birthday, Gary. Thank you, Bernie. It's good

to be here as ever, and a happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas as well to all our listeners.

Yeah, so we're recording this a little before Christmas time,

but by the time it says out, it will be Gary's birthday we'll have coming on,

and New Year's and Christmas.

We started a YouTube channel for What's New in History.

Basically, it'll be the podcast on there,

but if you could do me a humongous favor and just

subscribe to it to help with the YouTube algorithm. So, and today, this is a really cool article I

found, and I sent it to Gary, and he's like, yeah, let's do it. Basically, the title of the article is,

it's a really extraordinary story.

Historian Stephen Tuck says of the Romans he tracked who survived the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

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