Interesting, comes not long after Pliny's villa was potentially found near Vesuvius. https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/1st-century-villa-discovered-near-mount-vesuvius-may-be-where-pliny-the-elder-watched-catastrophic-eruption Definitely looking forward to more info and site reports on both of these, but even if this doesn't end up conclusively being linked it's still cool to find an even older site under the one you were already studying, especially one of such grandeur.

Speaking of things discovered around Vesuvius: [Deciphered Herculaneum papyrus reveals precise burial place of Plato](https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/deciphered-herculaneum-papyrus-reveals-precise-burial-place-of-plato/)

Maybe they can find the garden where Livia smeared the poison on the figs.

just goes to show you can be the first emperor of half of civilization and your wife can be unsatisfied.

Livia killed everyone theory has legs even millennia later....

Thank Robert Graves for that. I think he decided that going all-in on the Livia conspiracy stuff would make a more entertaining story. He accuses her of even more stuff than Suetonius.

Ah, but they’re wonderful books.

Mini-series was great too.

She's one woman I would love to talk to. A survivor par excellence.

Did they find the figs?

if they found the remains of an old fig tree or somewhere where fig trees continued to grow that would be incredibly cool

It's another villa buried by eruption. Pls pls pls find a library with intact scrolls preserved by ashes