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In the year 79 CE, the eruption of Vesuvius froze the life of Pompeii in one brief instant. Nearly two thousand years later, archaeologists are trying to reconstruct the city’s history and activity. One of them is Laetitia Cavassa, who is conducting a study on Pompeii’s potters. She recounts her six years spent out in the field conducting excavations and tracing fingerprints.
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