Much else about the discovery -- including the number of bodies unearthed, their identities and the people suspected of killed them -- remained shrouded in dispute or confusion today.
The archaeological focus of her television show is a trove, if that's the word, of 54 bodies unearthed about 10 years ago in the basement of a house in Oplontis, a suburb of Pompeii.
For five years, little news emerged on their fate, until this week, when Mexican and American authorities announced that they had identified six of nine bodies unearthed by forensic experts from the Federal Bureau of Investigation from three mass graves near Ciudad Juarez.
Occasionally, a body is unearthed.
Her body was unearthed in 2000.
Today, as each body was unearthed, rescue workers paused and removed their hats, as fire department chaplains led them in prayer.
There are earthquake-shattered pieces of Renaissance Virgins and a blocklike marble head from the seventh or eighth century B.C., one of 5,172 fragments of stone body parts unearthed in Sardinia in 1974.
Several more bodies were unearthed Thursday from a pile of rubble.
As more bodies are unearthed daily, the people here said they would take matters into their own hands.
We expect huge numbers of bodies to be unearthed".
