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Pompeii. Episode 1, The bodies / producer; Marco Gangarossa ; a Lion Television production for BBC, in association with PBS, ARTE France and All3Media International.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city).
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Pompeii (Extinct city).
- Genre:
- Documentary television programs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (54 minutes)
- Other Title:
- Pompeii : the new dig
- Bodies
- Place of Publication:
- Arlington, VA : Public Broadcasting Service, 2025.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Told through the drama of the dig and stylized fresco-inspired animations, this episode imagines what life was like in Pompeii before the eruption, as well as the horror faced by the residents as Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. From the bodies of victims to workmen's tools and a 2000-year-old fresco of a pizza, no one could have predicted what they find.
- Participant:
- Kate Fleetwood, Alexander Mariotti, Steven Tuck, Sophie Hay. Narrator, Ria Lina.
- Notes:
- "The new dig".
- Originally broadcast as a television program in 2024.
- Title from resource description page (viewed October 23, 2025).
- OCLC:
- 1559150649
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