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Here goes a bunch of mostly thumbnailed videos introducing Roman archeology visitation sites. Find ones you like, then you can hunt videos in more depth. As this can be ungainly to load, I have an alternate list version in perhaps a more fitting location at https://www.unrv.com/forum/topic/19385-list-version-favorite-archeo-tour-videos/. One really remarkable series on youtube that includes Roman sites is https://www.youtube.com/c/ProWalks/videos . Put it on a big screen in 4K and turn on closed captions which has a lot of historical footnotes. See his Hadrian's Villa, Appian Way, Pompeii, Herculeum, etc and feel free to post comments there. I think he gets the low level details right but not the background context, which folks here would know better. There are a bunch of similar, really copycat, channels that I think don't quite measure up. https://www.youtube.com/c/toldinstone/videos has a more scholarly slant, and more channels which I will try to recall and append here. Maybe it would be better to post each good video.

https://todayuknews.com/science/archaeology-roman-statues-found-underneath-the-site-of-a-norman-church-in-stoke-mandeville/amp/

The hand of Fortuna - Jenn Phizacklea A new book released by Australian author Jenn Phizacklea: The year is 6 CE. The family Plautii have reached the pinnacle of the Roman social hierarchy and politics, led by the charismatic Aulus Plautius and his cousin Silvanus; but that position will be threatened from unlooked-for sources, both inside and outside the family. Silvanus has left his wife and children in Rome to take his place as Governor of Pamphylia and Galatia in the east, but behind him, chaos descends as his wife spirals out of control and his son behaves in unexpected, scandalous ways. Meanwhile, the elder Aulus takes on an investigation into a shadowy figure named Facilus, unaware that the trail will lead him into a case that threatens both his hedonistic cousin, Rufus, and the family name, with disaster.