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'People made it out of the cities alive': Tracing the survivors of Pompeii and Herculaneum, 2,000 years after Vesuvius erupted

Several lines of evidence, from chiseled inscriptions to missing horses, suggest that thousands of people survived the ...
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'It's really an extraordinary story,' historian Steven Tuck says of the Romans he tracked who survived the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius

"I have found two or three rich guys, but I found a couple hundred middle class and even some desperately poor people who ...
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Under Pompeii’s Ash, Harvard Researchers Unearth Everyday Life In Ancient Rome

To explore the site, the researchers drafted a multidisciplinary team of scientists from the fields of botany, architecture, ...
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The Victims of Vesuvius

This final episode of a three-part series exploring the intertwined histories of Pompeii and Vesuvius investigates how the remains of the eruption's victims illuminate their lives - and their deaths.
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'It's really an extraordinary story,' historian Steven Tuck says of the Romans he tracked who survived the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius

The eerie casts of the victims of the A.D. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius paint a desolate picture of the destruction the volcano wrought on ancient cities near modern Naples. Pompeii became a ...
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'People made it out of the cities alive': Tracing the survivors of Pompeii and Herculaneum, 2,000 years after Vesuvius erupted

Escape from Pompeii: The Great Eruption of Mount Vesuvius and Its Survivors — $29.99 on Amazon By asking new questions about Pompeii and innovatively examining the evidence, Escape from Pompeii proves ...