Pompeii and the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
The Ancients
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The Pros and Cons of a Man and His Slave
Two humans have been discovered in an area called Kivita Juliana which is about 700 metres northwest of Pompeii. It's two men, it's thought, looking at the build of them. And they look slightly different from one another. They were found in a little room off the cryptoporticus and people looked at him and said maybe he was involved in some kind of manual labour. But on that evidence alone it's very difficult to say who he was in relation to the older man. We have a fair idea. So it's a political context.
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