Pompeii daily life layers: shops, graffiti, and buried routines

A 5-beat faceless video outline for “Pompeii daily life layers: shops, graffiti, and buried routines” in the Ancient civilizations niche, derived from caption timing of 2 reference videos.

Angles

• Open on streets and shopfronts still readable under ash — scale before sensational casts
• Layer daily routines: bakeries, graffiti, house plans as evidence of ordinary life
• Separate tourism spectacle from what archaeology can actually claim
• Close on a walking-checklist card for reading a buried city

Beat-by-beat structure

1. Hook (0:00–0:30): a city frozen mid-errand — promise daily life, not only disaster.
2. Street layer (0:30–2:30): shops, stepping stones, public water.
3. House layer (2:30–5:00): atriums, wall writing, household gear.
4. Method honesty (5:00–6:30): what casts and digs show vs what guides invent.
5. Recap. Original narration only.

Reference videos

• Secrets of Pompeii's Dead (Full Episode) | Drain the Oceans | National Geographic NP4RrJCYFGs
• Pompeii Explained 4K OwDEuCA-Yrs

Method

yt-dlp VTT captions (manual/uploader only) → timed beat heuristics → editorial topic synthesis (no ASR). Structure only; write original narration.