Archaeologists discover bed wedged against door of house in Pompeii

When Mount Vesuvius began to erupt on the morning of August 24, AD 79, most of Pompeii's residents were entirely unprepared.

But a harrowing new discovery reveals one family's desperate fight for survival.

Experts from Pompeii Archaeological Park have excavated a home dubbed the 'House of Elle and Frisso' along Via del Vesuvio.

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