Story about Pompeii: New Secrets Revealed with Mary Beard / 庞贝:最新解密
Professor Mary Beard, renowned classicist and TV historian, is to explore what life was like in one ...
Professor Mary Beard, renowned classicist and TV historian, is to
explore what life was like in one of the world’s most extraordinary and
iconic archaeological sites, in Pompeii: Life Before Death, a new
landmark programme for BBC One.
Mary Beard – a world Pompeii expert
and author of Pompeii: Life Of A Roman Town – will be joining an
international team as they bring the very latest technology to bear on
this most extraordinary of archaeological sites.
Mary Beard says: “This is a really
exciting chance to find out more about the ordinary people who lived in
ancient Pompeii. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity. I'm hoping we're
going to unlock some if the secrets about who the people were.”
For the first time, a team is CT
scanning and fully investigating the world-famous casts of the bodies to
analyse the skeletons trapped within, to ascertain all they can about
who they were, where they came from and how they lived. A team is also
conducting DNA analysis of the bodies for the first time.
Elsewhere, the documentary will follow
the work of recovering damaged frescoes and mosaics, the excavation and
rebuilding of certain key buildings and the organisation and
cataloguing of the thousands of astonishing artefacts in the storerooms –
from loaves of bread to pet monkeys, paint pots to purses. It will
shine a light on the work of archaeologists who are exploring the third
of the town that has never been excavated, and will present a unique
first look at the complete Pompeii in stunning CGI.
Using the evidence gleaned from all
this research, the BBC One film will piece together a full picture of
daily life in Pompeii before the town was destroyed by the eruption of
Vesuvius in AD79.