The people of Pompeii cower in agony at the close of this extraordinary exhibition. In one chilling tableau an entire family – husband, wife and two children – lie together in positions of extreme pain and terror. The man and woman have their arms raised, fists clenched, as they brace against the extreme heat that hit this vainly sheltering little group when the volcano Vesuvius erupted in AD79. The children are even more pitiable. One is trying to get up out of the dying mother's lap. Another lies nearby, with a clearly preserved and mercifully tranquil-looking face.

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Download Pompeii Movie The ash that buried Pompeii preserved its people. When the lost city started to be excavated in the 18th century, cavities were found to bear spooky imprints of faces, flesh, clothes. The 19th-century archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli discovered how to pour plaster of paris into the recesses to create the terrible, beautiful statues of suffering that leave you so haunted by what is undoubtedly one of the most momentous archaeological exhibitions ever staged.

I never witnessed the legendary Tutankhamun exhibition at the British Museum in 1972, but I have seen every exhibition there since Neil MacGregor became director in 2002 and this is the most moving by far. It is also the most timely. There have been too many news stories recently about ancient Roman buildings in Pompeii falling into ruin (after they were miraculously preserved). This majestic event will hopefully remind the world that Pompeii is not some tourist attraction to treat shabbily but the world's most revelatory survival of the human past.

It is not just about Pompeii but also Herculaneum. These were two flourishing cities in the wealthy region of Campania, a sun-kissed haunt of the rich, a Roman riviera where