In winning the Battle of Alesia, the brilliant military tactician
and politician Gaius Julius Caesar subdued the last of Republic's
invaders; he took control of the government and spawned a civil war.
9.00 p.m. |DCIVC| Vesuvius: Deadly Fury
Remains of 300 skeletons found huddled in 12 vaults on the beach at
Herculaneum offer a unique chance to reconstruct life in the 1st
century AD; computer graphics re-create the eruption of Vesuvius in
79 AD.
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