The Final Hours -
pompeii: the new dig

In Pompeii, the excavation of a wealthy villa, bakery, and laundry reaches its peak. Chilling details about what people were doing in the final terrifying hours of AD 79 are revealed. As the eruption began to subside, were they over the worst?

Episode Duration: 56 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 103

About Pompeii: The New Dig:

Follow the most extensive archaeological excavation in Pompeii for a generation.

Nearly two years in the making, with exclusive access to the dig and the all-Italian team of archaeologists, the series follows the excavation of an entire city block, unearthing what life was like in Pompeii before the eruption and the horror faced by the victims, and those who survived, when Vesuvius erupted in AD 79.

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