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Pompeii: The New Dig
Valeria Makes a Shocking Discovery
In a small room at the front of the building, anthropologist Dr. Valeria Amoretti is carefully excavating the remains of two bodies. They are skeletons of two women who have been crushed by a collapsing ceiling.
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An excavation in Pompeii unearths new rich finds, and the search is on for survivors.

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At Pompeii, in the biggest dig in a generation, archaeologists excavate a new city block.