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Pompeii: The New Dig
The Final Hours
Season 1
Episode 3
In Pompeii, the excavation of a wealthy villa, bakery and laundry reaches its climax. Chilling revelations about what people were doing in the final terrifying hours in AD 79 are revealed. As the eruption began to subside, were they over the worst?
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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.