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Bodies from the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii

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In precedent days, Pompeii used to be one of the crucial largest cities within the Roman Empire. Its 20,000 inhabitants lived within the shadow of Vesuvius, which they believed used to be nothing more than a mountain. But Vesuvius used to be a volcano. And at the morning of August 24, A.D. 79, Vesuvius started to erupt. Within twenty-four hours, all the city of Pompeii—and lots of of its citizens—had been utterly annihilated.

It used to be not until hundreds of years later that Pompeii saw daylight again, as archaeological excavations started to unearth what had been buried under layers of volcanic rubble. Digging crews expected to seek out buildings and jewelry and other treasures, but they discovered something unexpected, too: the imprints of lost Pompeiians, their deaths captured as if by photographic images in volcanic ash.

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