玛丽·比尔德教授，著名古典和电视历史学家，是探索什么是生活就像在世界上最不寻常的标志性的考古遗址之一，庞贝：生命死亡前，一个新的里程碑计划，BBC一。
玛丽·比尔德 - 庞贝古城的世界庞贝专家和作家：生命中的罗马城 - 为他们带来最新的技术来解决这个最不寻常的考古遗址将加入一个国际团队。
玛丽·比尔德说：“这是为了更多地了解谁住在庞贝古城的老百姓一个非常激动人心的机会。这是一个千载难逢的机会只有一次。我希望我们将解开一些，如果秘密是谁的人不在少数。“
这是第一次，一队是CT扫描和充分调查机构的世界著名的演员来分析被困在骨架，以确定所有他们可以对他们是谁，他们来自何处，以及他们如何生活。团队也进行了机构首次的DNA分析。
在其他地方，纪录片将按照恢复损坏的壁画和马赛克，挖掘和某些关键建筑物的重建和组织以及数以千计的库房惊人的文物编目工作 - 从面包到宠物猴子，油漆罐，以皮包。它将照耀谁正在探索从未被发掘镇的第三个考古工作的光，将出席完整的庞贝城独特的先看看惊艳CGI。
利用所有这些研究中收集的证据，BBC一电影将拼凑日常生活的全貌在庞贝城前镇被维苏威火山的AD79喷发摧毁。
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.
