Essos want to help you use your car a little less by hopping on your bike a little more,

especially for those shorter trips, like the popping out for a pint of milk trip,

or the off-to-pick up the kids' trip, or even the Friday night chippy trip.

And to make the swap easier, every day Essos is giving away an e-bike and 10,000 nectar points

that you could spend on cycling gear. Could you do a journey differently?

Search Essos Thoughtful Driving to find out more, see terms and conditions at sso.co.uk.

I remember this faded reference book when I was a kid. It was about Pompeii.

It had photos of villas that were filled with colorful frescoes, stone walls and marble columns.

And there were also all these plaster white figures frozen into all sorts of weird positions

by the volcanic ash that buried the city. And for a long time I thought,

that's Pompeii. Don't indust it. I mean, people have been digging it up for centuries. By now we

should know all there is to know about the city of Pompeii. Right? Oh my gosh, Pompeii has so much

more to offer us. Rebecca Benefield teaches Latin literature and Roman archaeology at Washington

and Lee University in Virginia. And she says some of the most telling details about Pompeii

are written all over the city's walls, literally written. People didn't notice them for a while

because ancient graffiti are really small. Really small but also all over the place.

People are writing everywhere. They're writing for their family and their friends and visitors.

And all that writing is bringing the people of Pompeii into focus like never before.

What are they thinking about? What are they doing? What matters to them? This is something that we can

use to see into the lived experience to see what the Pompeians themselves were like.

I'm Peter Gwynn and this is overheard at National Geographic, a show where we ease drop on the wild

conversations we have here at Nat Geo and follow them to the edges of our big, weird, beautiful world.

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