Ancient Pompeii Bodies
He was estimated to have been 30 to 40 years old pompeii officials said. Pompeii excavation unearths well preserved bodies of two men cbs news via yahoo news 3 weeks ago.
Fragments of white paint were found near the man s face probably remnants of a collapsed upper wall the officials said.
Ancient pompeii bodies. Bodies from the ash. Because some of the bodies were found bent in the fetal position the prevailing theory for some time has been that the citizens of pompeii suffocated beneath the ash a death that would have been slow terrifying and painful. The bodies of two men who died when the city of pompeii was submerged in ash from a volcanic eruption almost 2000 years ago have.
Mount vesuvius erupted and destroyed the ancient roman city of pompeii nearly 2 000 years ago but. Pompeii was a large roman town in the italian region of campania which was completely buried in volcanic ash following the eruption of nearby mt. The town was excavated in the 19th and 20th century ce and due to its excellent state of preservation it has given an invaluable insight into the roman world and may lay claim to being the richest archaeological site in the world.
When the skin and tissue of these bodies eventually decayed they left voids in the layer of ash around them in the exact shape of the victims in their final moments. 79 mount vesuvius buried the vibrant roman city of pompeii and many of its citizens beneath tons of volcanic ash and debris. Archaeologists have discovered the exceptionally well preserved remains of two men scalded to death by the volcanic eruption that destroyed the ancient roman city of pompeii in 79 ad the italian.
Bodies unearthed of two victims of volcanic eruption in pompeii. New information however points instead to death by pyroclastic surge a kind of extremely high heat tornado. Life and death in ancient pompeii tells the story of the victims of pompeii.
Some attempts were made to excavate the town but no one was certain of its exact location. Vesuvius in 79 ce. The bodies of pompeii of vesuvius had been covered in layers of fine ash that calcified over the centuries forming a type of protective shell around their bodies.
Pompeii 23 km 14 miles southeast of naples was home to about 13 000 people when the eruption buried it under under ash pumice pebbles and dust freezing it in time. On a fateful summer morning in a d. Vesuvius erupted in ad 79 pompeii lay buried until 12 feet of volcanic ash and debris for the next 1700 years.
