01: The Bodies | Pompeii: The New Dig

Duration: 58'54''

Synopsis

At Pompeii, Italian archaeologists begin the biggest dig in a generation, where they find a bakery, a wealthy house and a fresco of a so-called 'pizza', and make a grisly discovery.

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