[HN Gopher] People returned to live in Pompeii's ruins, archaeol...
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       People returned to live in Pompeii's ruins, archaeologists say
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2025-08-07 13:16 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | benwills wrote:
       | For those interested, there's a new set of hour-long videos on
       | the PBS site that has more about the recent Pompeii excavations.
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       | There are four so far. Not sure if there will be more:
       | https://www.pbs.org/show/pompeii-the-new-dig/
        
       | inglor_cz wrote:
       | IIRC the first explosion of 79 AD didn't bury the Pompeii
       | completely. (It _did_ bury Herculaneum, and much deeper so.) It
       | was another explosion around the time of collapse of the Western
       | Roman Empire that finished the job and hid the remaining
       | structures from human view.
        
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