Pompeii Skeletons Reveal Another Disaster Added to Vesuvius Eruption's Horror [View all]
18 July 2024
By MICHELLE STARR
The destruction of Pompeii wrought by the eruption of Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago was an absolutely devastating moment in human history.
Many of the residents of the ancient Roman city were asphyxiated and entombed in the ash and pumice that rained down during the first 18 hours of the eruption, or killed instantly by the intense heat of the pyroclastic surges that later barreled through the city.
The excavation of two newly discovered skeletons now reveals that there was another factor at play that made things even worse. These unfortunate individuals were crushed by falling walls destabilized by the simultaneous earthquakes that wracked the surrounding area.
Although we have the final moments of Pompeii almost perfectly preserved, a horrifying moment in time screaming silently for millennia, it can still be quite tricky to reconstruct events from what remains.
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