Dr. Jess Venner

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Science Friday · How do you piece together what life was like in Pompeii? · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

I know we really specific people, aren't we?

So a third of the city is still left to be excavated.

So in a way, there's a lot of open questions.

Yes.

And things are ongoing.

You know, in my research for my PhD, I found a 250 percent increase in urban agriculture in the city after the earthquake that I mentioned in 1862, where much of the town was destroyed.

And what they were doing essentially is what we all started doing during Covid, which was gardening again.

And they saw an opportunity in that, particularly because landowners of the time would have thought, actually, I'm not going to rebuild those buildings because that's going to cost me a fortune and we keep having earthquakes.

The other thing we can do is everyone wants some food right now.

Let's build gardens.

Let's build vineyards.

Let's build orchards.

Let's build vegetable plots.

And so that was happening there.

So I found that out only a couple of years ago.

I've just published it the other day in the Journal of Roman Archaeology.

So...

There's always things being found.

You just don't know always what the questions are.

Yes.

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