Following the site's biggest dig in a generation, this documentary requires spadework - but archaeological aficionados will be engrossed
Following the site's biggest dig in a generation, this documentary requires spadework - but archaeological aficionados will be engrossed
It was moving to see the likes of “body specialist” Dr Valeria Amoretti tenderly dusting the volcanic ash off the newly exposed rib cages of two victims “frozen in time at the moment of death”. After inspecting the skeletons’ pelvises, Dr Amoretti calculated that the victims were women – probably enslaved bakery workers who were crushed to death when their ceiling collapsed under the weight of ash and pumice. The broken bones of a young child lay nearby.
The house in which they had sheltered was a bakery, and its inhabitants would probably have stood a better chance of survival outside. Indeed, the second episode looked at whether any Pompeiians did manage to escape. As you can imagine: it was those with access to carts and horses – ie not the slaves.
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