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Marble At No Expense

Season 1 Episode 2 | 1m 19s

Professor Steven Tuck of Miami University begins a pioneering new research project looking for potential eruption survivors. He starts by visiting a newly discovered tomb that holds vital clues as to how many people lived in Pompeii in AD 79.

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