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THE LATEST DISCOVERIES ABOUT MIDDLE-CLASS LIVES IN POMPEII A trunk with its lid left open, a wooden dishware closet and a three-legged accent table topped by decorative bowls. Pompeii’s archaeological park director, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, said the excavation of rooms in a domus, had revealed precious details about the domestic environment of ordinary citizens of the city. In past decades, excavation largely concentrated on the sumptuous, elaborately frescoed villas of Pompeii’s upper-class residents. Discoveries in Pompeii reveal lives of lower and middle classes | The Guardian