Anyone notice at the part when the pyroclastic flow strikes Herculaneum right before the slave girl, the baby, and all those other people are cooked the cloud was seeping over the chamber why was it seeping? It should have been going really fast. Plus if those people were cooked so badly that they turned into charcoal then why wern't there any charcoal bodies in the chambers?
shareI think it had to do with the fact that those in the boathouse were partially shielded from the full-force of the flow. Those on the beach were caught completely in the open and were struck by the force of the flow for some time...perhaps a few minutes. Too bad really... when I was studying history, before they found the dead in the boathouse, it was one of the few positive things about the eruption in that it appeared that most of the people of Herculaneum had fled the city in time. Alas not. :-(
Also when we see that charcoal body (Slave girl?) The female narrator said that the victim's heads exploded yet that head was still intact.
shareThe narrator said their <em>brains</em> exploded. Not to be too morbid, but the brains could very well have blown out their eye sockets. The narration at that point was talking abou the skeletons in the boathouse, not the rock-coated charcoalized bodies outside.
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