Preserved finds from the day Pompeii fell

Pompeii’s Regio V is the gift that keeps on giving. Last year, excavations in the ancient Roman city revealed a ‘thermopolium,’ basically a Roman bodega for quick bites. This August, archaeologists at Pompeii announced the discovery of several furnished rooms in a house in the same area, containing plates, planks, and other items of daily middle class life in the city that vanished under volcanic ash in 79 CE.