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The Garden of the Fugitives (Italian: Orto dei Fuggiaschi) [1] is an archaeological site located in the ancient destroyed city of Pompeii, in Regio 1 Insula 21. [2] [3] It contains the casts of 13 victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. [4]
Fascinating artworks have been uncovered in a new excavation at Pompeii, the ancient Roman city doomed and buried by Mount Vesuvius’s deadly eruption in AD79.. The most impressive discovery is ...
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An archaeologist works on the recently discovered remains of a victim in the archaeological site of the ancient city of Pompeii, which was destroyed in AD 79 by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, in ...
In 79 AD, Italy’s Mount Vesuvius exploded, raining ash and volcanic debris down on the city of Pompeii and its tens of thousands of residents. In mere minutes, the giant cloud of ash and gases ...
The casts of some victims in the so-called "Garden of the Fugitives", Pompeii Apart from Pliny the Elder, the only casualties of the eruption to be known by name were the Herodian princess Drusilla and her son Agrippa, who was born in her marriage with the procurator Antonius Felix . [ 42 ]
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 ...