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Hello and welcome to the podcast.

I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

And I'm Holly Fry. This is time for the latest

installment of unearthed. I feel like I said those words in a weird order, but it's okay. We're

going to power through. If you are brand new to the show, unearthed is when we talk about things

that have been literally or figuratively unearthed over the last few months.

So that's what we're going to talk about all week long.

And today we are going to talk about medical things, books and letters, some oldest things, and some smells.

I did not realize we were going to have a smells category,

and we actually wound up with fewer smells than expected,

which is, that's the story for Friday.

We will start, as we usually do, with updates to past episodes.

We don't actually have that many, this time, comparatively fewer updates than

the last several episodes of unearthed. Also, I don't have any new updates regarding things

like the President's House site or the other ongoing issues here in the U.S. with like the field of history and education

and those kinds of things that we've been talking about a lot on Earth unearthed over the last year.

A lot of our updates, though, are frequent flyers on unearthed.

And we are kicking off those updates with several finds from Pompeii.

Researchers have used reflectance transformation imaging to identify 79 previously undetected inscriptions on a corridor that connected Pompeii's theaters to the city's central street, via Stabiana.

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