The world-famous ruins of Pompeii still have many secrets for us to discover. Recently, the remains of a domus has offered extraordinary new evidence of life in the city before the catastrophe.
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00:32 - We have paintings, we have this still life here.
00:41 There are other rooms with frescoes.
00:44 But there's also a big bakery with an oven inside the house,
00:49 which is unusual for the most upper class elite houses.
00:55 We found three skeletons near the oven,
00:59 in the bakery part of the house.
01:02 It was very interesting for us
01:03 because they were really badly damaged
01:06 from collapsing structures
01:08 from the upper floors of the house,
01:11 which means these people,
01:14 probably two women and a child,
01:17 were hiding here during the eruption.
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