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Gold, luxury, and long-buried secrets! NEW EPISODE of POMPEII: THE NEW DIG – Wednesday August, 6 at 10pm
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“House of Treasures”
Wednesday, August 6 10pm
Following the success of the three-part series, Pompeii: The New Dig, cameras return to the world-famous archaeological site to exclusively capture the reveal of extraordinary new finds of gold, luxury, and long-buried secrets. Join Italian archaeologists in this new episode, “House of Treasures”, as the focus of the excavation moves from a cluster of commercial buildings, which include a lucrative bakery and stylish laundry, to an adjacent luxurious residence, possibly owned by Pompeiian big-wig and local politician, Aulus Rustius Verus. This new episode will build a picture of the luxurious lifestyle enjoyed by the owners which is in stark contrast to the living conditions of the enslaved workers next door, which were highlighted in previous episodes.
The excavation aims to unearth the buildings, their purpose, who lived there, and what happened to them during the eruption. Alongside the present tense story of the dig, the series investigates the timeline of the eruption. From the violent earthquakes that shook the city in the years before the eruption, to the day of the disaster, Vesuvius first slowly buries Pompeii and then delivers the killer blows in the form of pyroclastic flows. For the first time, pioneering new research finds hard evidence that some Pompeiians escaped the city and survived the eruption. From evidence hidden in Pompeii’s storeroom of prominent Pompeiians, the investigation discovers inscriptions that date from after the eruption and bear the same name in the area surrounding the destroyed city.
Although much of Pompeii has been excavated since its discovery, a significant area of the city still remains unexcavated. The focus of the ongoing excavation – the biggest dig in a generation – is an area called Region IX.