Pompeii: Buried, Lost, and Nearly Forgotten

Welcome to Sleepytime History™ — true stories from the pages of history for a full night's rest.

Tonight we drift back to ancient Pompeii, a bustling Roman port of twenty thousand souls buried in a matter of hours beneath a blanket of volcanic ash. Along the Bay of Naples, this jewel of ancient Rome once stretched comfortably in the Mediterranean sun — a place of merchants and bakers, wine shops and bathhouses, its walls thick with painted frescoes and graffiti. Above it all stood Mount Vesuvius, known to the Romans as a green and generous place of vineyards and wild boar, its slopes seeming harmless enough. No one imagined the danger coiled deep beneath that fertile soil. The Vesuvius eruption 79 AD would freeze a single fateful day in place, and much of Pompeii history would be lost to time until the buried city of Pompeii, and neighbouring Herculaneum, were uncovered nearly two millennia later. Why did some flee at the first tremor while others stayed behind, clutching keys and jewellery, trusting the worst would pass? Tonight we wander the ancient cobbled streets and stroll gently through the Pompeii ruins in the final hours before the mountain woke, uncovering in detail what happened next. This is Roman history told softly — tranquil history and history for serenity, made to help you unwind with history and get sleepy. Like all our history legends and tales of the greatest minds in history, it belongs to a growing library of audiobook storytelling. Whether you find us among audio books or search for audiobooks to rest by, this is history to soothe the mind — history for serenity and harmony offered simply as history for sleep.

Let this quiet story of endurance and devotion guide you into a restful night's sleep.

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Chapters:

00:00:00 Pompeii: Buried, Lost, and Nearly Forgotten

00:39:55 Mutiny on the Bounty & Captain Bligh's Impossible Story of Survival

01:20:25 The Lost 300-Foot Underground City of Derinkuyu - Who Built It and Why?

02:08:35 The Druids: Ancient Sorcerers or Masters of Natural Science?

02:52:08 True Story Behind "The Revenant" & Hugh Glass' Unbelievable Survival (Holiday Re-Release)

03:34:46 Alexander Selkirk: The Real Robinson Crusoe (Holiday Re-Release)

04:22:16 Nellie Bly: Around the World in 80 Days

05:05:39 Origins of the Loch Ness Monster

05:46:36 Cleopatra: Dangerous, Bewitching & Irresistible

06:28:14 Rasputin

07:15:02 Who were the Radium Girls?

07:52:07 Origins of Merlin the Wizard: Fact or Fiction?

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Written and produced by Pamela Erwin

Narration by Oliver Hale

Music by Pia Maya

Visuals by Ben Blight

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