Pompeii Discoveries

 

 archaeologists have begun a major newexcavation of the Roman city of Pompeiiit was destroyed nearly 2 000 years agoafter Mount Vesuvius erupted our signseditor Rebecca morale reportswith Vesuvius looming over it a Roman.city perfectly preserved exactly as itwas on the day of a violent eruption twothousand years ago

 

but now new secrets are being Unearthedin Pompeii's 

as they were suggesting a room that wasmid-renovation this was a building wherepeople lived and workedthe team here are trying to work outwhat the different rooms were used forthis one is pretty obvious though thisis an oven very similar to an oven you'dsee in Naples today but it is way toobig to be inside a home so most likelythis was a wholesale Bakery making breadfor the people of Pompeii it wassomething like this on the menu apossible Pizza found on a recentlyrevealed fresco.

biggest excavation in ageneration layer by layer archaeologistsare revealing a new snapshot of how.Romans lived and died this is one of themain streets of Pompei it would havebeen a hive of activity but let me takeyou through this entrance into one othe newly excavated areas this is  

 

but there have also been some morbiddiscoveries three skeletons found buriedunder Rubblethe moments was captured by adocumentary crew for the BBC'sthree-part series on Pompeii's new digthe bones are extremely fragilethey've been taken to the on-site labfor closer examinationwe have two women probably and a childand are totally destroyed by thecollapse of the roof these bones bearthe scars of the horror from whatstarted as a normal day Pompeii is a uha city of horrible stories for thepeople not for the houses for theFresco's for for the object but for thepeople yeah we start to study theReconstruction of the story of thesepeople to give them a new memory only inPompeii you can see their lifeof the people of the Roman peoplethis excavation has already given upsome incredible new Treasures after onlya few months.

 but this is just the start a third ofPompeii still lies buried beneath thevolcanic soilthere are many stories left to tellabout this lost Roman world