Researchers Identify Among Pompeii Victims a Doctor Who Tried to Escape with His Utensils
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More than sixty years after excavations in the so-called Garden of Fugitives in Pompeii, the city ravaged by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D., has been...
The most recent discovery in Pompeii Archaeological Park shows that one of the victims of Vesuvius' eruption almost two thousand years ago was a doctor surprised while trying to escape, according to EuroNews.com. The doctor's identification was possible after studying a small box hidden in the plaster of a human mulage. This mulage was...
More than sixty years after the excavations in the so-called Garden of Fugitives in Pompeii, the city ravaged by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D., the profession of one of the victims has been identified: it was probably a doctor who died while trying to escape carrying with him some of the tools of his trade.
Hidden Medical Kit Identifies Pompeii Victim as Roman Doctor
A plaster cast of a victim discovered in the Garden of the Fugitives at Pompeii. Credit: Archaeological Park of Pompeii More than 60 years after archaeologists uncovered the Garden of the Fugitives in Pompeii, new research is revealing the final moments of a man believed to have been a Roman doctor killed during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Researchers say the victim likely died while trying to escape the ancient city, carrying medic…
He carried a sort of briefcase made of organic material with metallic elements.
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