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France’s ‘mini Pompeii,’ a Roman town frozen in time by fire

There’s an archaeological race against time underway in France.

08/14/2017

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France’s ‘mini Pompeii,’ a Roman town frozen in time by fire

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There’s an archaeological race against time underway in France.

There’s an archaeological race against time underway in France as archaeologists work to save artifacts from a site dubbed as a “mini Pompeii.” This discovery of these 2,000-year-old Roman ruins is being called perhaps the most important of its kind in the past 50 years. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports.

08/14/2017

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