From ancient pizzas to snake shrines: Take a look around this recently excavated home in Pompeii

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The world-famous ruins of Pompeii still have many secrets for us to discover. Recently, the remains of a domus has offered extraordinary new evidence of life in the city before the catastrophe.

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00:32 - We have paintings, we have this still life here.

00:41 There are other rooms with frescoes.

00:44 But there's also a big bakery with an oven inside the house,

00:49 which is unusual for the most upper class elite houses.

00:55 We found three skeletons near the oven,

00:59 in the bakery part of the house.

01:02 It was very interesting for us

01:03 because they were really badly damaged

01:06 from collapsing structures

01:08 from the upper floors of the house,

01:11 which means these people,

01:14 probably two women and a child,

01:17 were hiding here during the eruption.

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