POMPEII: The Wardrobe Sealed for 2,000 Years
📅 10 November 2026
On 29 October 2026, the Pompeii Archaeological Park announced a remarkable find: a cupboard — an armarium — inside a domus on the Via dell'Abbondanza, Pompeii's busiest street, sealed since the eruption of Vesuvius buried the city in 79 CE. It is the subject of our latest film, POMPEII: The Wardrobe Sealed for 2,000 Years.
The twist is that the wardrobe itself is gone. The wood did not survive — archaeologists reconstructed the cupboard from the imprint it left in the volcanic ash. Inside were the belongings it once held: a necklace of at least 24 amulets (crepundia), 38 bronze coins kept in a woven basket, a perfume bottle, tweezers, an incense burner, a bronze lamp, eight lead weights — and two small wooden mice.
Headlines have called it a woman's wardrobe, and the amulet necklace a child's. Those readings are interpretations, not established fact — and our film grades every famous claim about the find CONFIRMED, PROBABLE or CLAIMED against the evidence, and delivers a verdict. Watch the full film above — it premieres tonight, Tuesday 10 November at 21:00 PKT, on Chr Vines. Which 'impossible' site should we grade next? Tell us in the comments.
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