1 of 3 | Tom Hiddleston's Nat Geo docu-series "Pompeii: Out of Time" premieres on Disney+ and Hulu on July 23. File Photo by Peter Foley/UPI | License Photo

June 16 (UPI) -- Loki, Thor, The Night Manager and Chuck star Tom Hiddleston is to host a three-part Nat Geo docu-series called Pompeii: Out of Time.

The program will debut on Disney+ and Hulu on July 23.

"The ancient world has compelled my imagination and curiosity for as long as I can remember: I've been fascinated by it all my life," Hiddleston said in a press release Tuesday.

"Classical Antiquity is the foundation and cornerstone of Western and European culture. To visit Pompeii is to feel the distance of the 2,000 years between now and then compress. The past becomes the present; the past feels so close," he added.