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In the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, the human remains of two victims of the great eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD were found, until now unknown. They belong to two men, according to the reconstruction of archaeologists reported by Ansa, “A forty year old wrapped in a warm woolen cloak and his young slave girl.” The discovery, explained the director of the Massimo Osanna Archaeological Park, is also important because it was possible to make plaster casts of the remains, such as those dating back to the archaeological investigations of the 19th century that spread the appearance of the inhabitants of Pompeii throughout the world. The last time it was tried was in the 1990s, but the attempt failed.
(ANSA / LUIGI SPINA / Pompeii Archaeological Park)
Instead, more recent technologies were used to understand what objects the two men had with them at the time of death, caused by the boiling fumes from the eruption. The remains were found inside the suburban town of Civita Giuliana, a noble estate overlooking the sea where in 2018 the remains of three horses were found, one of which was harnessed with a wooden and bronze saddle: that’s why the town is now known as the “Villa del sauro bardato”. The first excavations at the site date back to 1907, under the direction of the Marquis Giovanni Imperiali, then owner of the land where the villa is located. After his investigations, the Marquis had the remains of the town reburied without leaving adequate documentation of what he had found.
The list of the remains of the harnessed horse found in Pompeii in 2018 (ANSA / CESARE ABBATE)
The most recent excavations have been started to prevent theft by grave robbers, who had visited the archaeological site several times in the past. Now they are digging around the “cryptoporticus” that is under one of the large terraces of the villa. “We too were lucky,” Osanna told Ansa, “because the compartment in which we found the bodies of the two men had escaped both early 20th-century excavations and grave robbers: a trench built by thieves. graves practically passed near the feet of one of the two victims. ”The presence of human remains could be identified because they felt empty under the layers that covered them.
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(ANSA / LUIGI SPINA / Pompeii Archaeological Park)
The casts of human remains recently found in another perspective (ANSA / LUIGI SPINA / Pompeii Archaeological Park)
The video of the Ministry of Cultural Assets and Activities that shows how the casts of the remains were obtained:
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