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A multidisciplinary volcanological and bio-anthropological study [53] of the eruption products and victims, merged with numerical simulations and experiments, indicates that at Pompeii and surrounding towns heat was the main cause of death of people, previously believed to have died by ash suffocation. The results of the study, published in ...
By 2003, approximately 1,044 casts made from impressions of bodies in the ash deposits had been recovered in and around Pompeii, with the scattered bones of another 100. [44] The remains of about 332 bodies have been found at Herculaneum (300 in arched vaults discovered in 1980). [45] The total number of fatalities remains unknown.
Body casts of victims from Pompeii are seen in this image. Researchers extracted ancient DNA from the casts of Pompeii victims to learn more about them. (Archeological Park of Pompeii)
The cast shows the 'pugilist pose' characteristic of bodies exposed to extreme temperature at the time of death. Lazer concluded from her studies of the skeletal remains that there were three main causes of death at Pompeii: [3] asphyxiation, which she concludes was a major cause of death.
Two newly discovered skeletons found at the doomed Roman town of Pompeii show that the Vesuvius volcano eruption also triggered deadly earthquakes. Pompeii's victims weren't only killed by a ...
Some of the victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D. in Pompeii were cast in plaster to preserve the scene. New DNA studies of those victims tell a different tale than what experts had ...
Some of the assumptions we made about the citizens the city’s destruction were pretty inaccurate.
Pompeii was home to around 20,000 people when it was buried under ash and volcanic glass during the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The woman was found holding coins and jewelry. - Archeological ...