To launch the Docu-series "Pompeii Countdown to Disaster" presented by Bettany Hughes I explored a variety of potential routes.
An interesting insight into life in Pompeii before the eruption of MT. Vesuvius in AD 79 is that the people living there had fantastic teeth.
What would information graphics in AD 79 have looked like?
It's not unusual to use a Seismograph to visualise the movement of the ground and therefore use it in communication around countries hit by earthquakes.
But when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 people were not alarmed by the smoke and the shaking of the earth and consequently didn't flee. I think this would have been an interesting to tell using a Seismograph.
