This Pompeii Victim Was Likely a Doctor Trying to Help Survivors
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“Even two thousand years ago, there were people who did not exercise medicine, limited to a consultation schedule, but were simply doctors, at all times, even when they fled the eruption,” reflects the director of the archaeological park, Gabriel Zuchtriegel
An interdisciplinary analysis has shown that among a group of casts of bodies of Pompeii residents who tried to escape the eruption of Vesuvius, one belonged to a doctor.
This Pompeii victim was likely a doctor trying to help survivors
The Garden of Fugitives is one of Pompeii’s most haunting sites. Discovered during archaeological excavations in 1961, the former vineyard quickly became a gravesite for over a dozen people who perished amid the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and its choking, burning hot pyroclastic cloud that enveloped the city in 79 CE. Although the victims’ bodies eventually decomposed underneath the pumice and ash, the unique burial conditions at their time of d…
New Details Emerge About Pompeii Victim - Archaeology Magazine
A researcher analyzes the fabric bag recovered from Pompeii's Garden of the Fugitives. POMPEII, ITALY—In 1961, archaeologists working in a property in Pompeii known as the Garden of the Fugitives uncovered the remains of 14 victims who failed to escape the a.d. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius. They made plaster casts of the deceased individuals as they were being excavated that capture the victims' dramatic final poses. Now, more than six decades …
For the first time, scientists in Pompeii were able to assign their profession to one of the victims of the volcanic eruption: A doctor carried surgical instruments while fleeing around 1300 victims of the Vesuvius eruption, researchers have so far found in the ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii. But who were these people? In some cases, DNA analyses reveal age and family constellations. Also, the sites of the mortal remains can reveal informa…
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