Pompeii The Bodies in the Basement

45 minHistory,
Documentary
A new investigation into one of the most harrowing gravesites of the 79AD eruption where more than 55 bodies were found cowering in a warehouse at a site that has long baffled archaeologists While the skeletons at the back of the room have no possessions those crowded at the front are laden with jewellery and gold but why in the chaos of their dying moments were the bodies so starkly divided by wealth