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About Britain's Pompeii: The Perfectly Preserved Burnt Bronze Age Village

Revelations from `Britain's Pompeii', the 3,000-year-old perfectly preserved village in Cambridgeshire, including how Bronze Age ancestors designed their homes and their kitchens packed with food and equipment, and the theatre where Shakespeare premiered Romeo and Juliet and Henry V. Odyssey is your journey into the world of Ancient History; from the dawn of Mesopotamia to the fall of Rome. We'll be bringing you only the best documentaries that journey into the mysteries and ruins of worlds long lost.

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Britain's Pompeii: The Perfectly Preserved Burnt Bronze Age Village
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59 minutes
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