Pompeii: Life and Death in a Roman Town [DVD] [2010]
- Every purchase supports the British Museum.
- Pompeii is one of the most famous volcanic eruptions in history.
- We know how its victims died, but this film sets out to answer another question - how did they live? In this film, Pompeii: Life and Death in a Roman Town, Cambridge professor and Pompeii expert Mary Beard provides new insight into the lives of the people who lived in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius before its deadly eruption using groundbreaking new evidence.
- In a dark cellar in Oplontis, just three miles from the centre of Pompeii, 54 skeletons who didn't succumb to the torrent of volcanic ash are about to be put under the microscope.
- The remains will be submitted to a barrage of tests that will unlock one of the most comprehensive scientific snapshots of Pompeian life ever produced - with some big surprises.
