Why were Pompeii residents wearing heavy wool during August eruption? Researchers reveal new evidence

Pompeii has always felt strangely frozen in time. Streets halted mid-step. Meals left on tables. Bodies caught in their last ...
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Pompeii's 'stone' bodies, brothels & bathhouses

Pompeii is a city frozen in time and shows us exactly how the Romans really lived. Buried by volcanic ash and debris from the catastrophic eruption of Versuvius in 79AD, visitors to the Roman town can ...
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Was Pompeii Really Destroyed in August? If So, Why Were the Victims Wearing Thick Wool?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, the people of Pompeii died in one of history’s most infamous natural disasters. For over 250 ...
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The eerie remains of Pompeii seem untouched. But new findings reveal a little-known postscript

The once-thriving Roman city of Pompeii resembles an eerie time capsule, seemingly unoccupied since a catastrophic volcanic eruption in AD 79, with the remains of its inhabitants forever frozen under ...
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Switching water sources improved hygiene of Pompeii’s public baths

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE released thermal energy roughly equivalent to 100,000 times the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II, spewing molten rock, ...
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After Vesuvius Buried Pompeii, Some Survivors Moved Back In

As many as 30,000 Romans fled the ruined region in A.D. 79. But some returned, a new study reveals, and the city limped on as a fragile, ashen shantytown. By Franz Lidz Of all end times tales, the ...