US Edition4 People Sealed Their Fates While Seeking Shelter From Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
- Archaeologists uncovered four people, including a child, who barricaded a bedroom door in a Pompeii home during the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
- The eruption released hot gases and ash that covered Pompeii, and the victims sought shelter in a house then undergoing renovation named for a fresco of Helle and Phrixus.
- Researchers found the victims' remains in the banquet hall and noted they partially blocked the door with furniture as volcanic debris fell through openings in the home.
- Gabriel Zuchtriegel stated pyroclastic clouds filled the house rapidly, trapping residents who likely felt safer indoors, and the pumice outside blocked escape routes hours into the eruption.
- The finding illustrates the terror Pompeii residents faced and highlights how fragments and objects in each unique house reveal both personal losses and aspirations amid the disaster.
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4 people sought shelter from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius — and sealed their own fates
Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that four people, including a child, in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii used furniture to block a bedroom door and shield themselves from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
Ancient home shows evidence of how Pompeiians tried to shelter from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Excavations in Pompeii revealed that four people, including a child, tried to seek shelter from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius by barricading themselves in a bedroom.
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Archaeologists discovered evidence that four people, including a child in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, used furniture to block the door of a room and protect themselves from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD The house ended up becoming its final rest site, according to a new survey published in April in E-Journal of the Pompeii Excavations. Read more Dutch ship wreck 170 years ago is found on the Australian coast Hundreds of Obsid…
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