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A team of archaeologists discovered the remains of two men in the town of Civita Giuliana, near the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in southern Italy. The clothing and the physiognomy of the bodies indicate that the bodies must belong to a rich man and slave.
One of the bodies had an almost intact physiognomy and still wore a woolen coat around the neck, one of the signs of wealth of yesteryear, while the other had some broken vertebrae and was only wearing a tunic. It will not be difficult to imagine who the rich and the slaves were. The wealthy figure should be between 30 and 40 years old, while the poorest figure would be between 18 and 23 years old, according to the research team.
The discovery was advanced this Saturday by the Italian Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini, who reveals that the two men died in an underground chamber while fleeing the eruption of Vesuvius, which in AD 79 completely destroyed the city of Pompeii.
Massimo Osanna, director general of the Pompeii Archaeological Park, notes that the two victims are said to have been swept away by a current around 9 a.m. The cause of death would have been “thermal shock”, since they had “clenched hands and feet”.
The recent discovery, obtained through excavations in the ancient Roman city, aims to show that Pompeii is still a place of “study and research,” according to the Italian Minister of Culture.
The city, which was home to some 13,000 people, was covered in ash, rocks and dust after the volcanic eruption. The “stop in time” continues to attract the interest of thousands of tourists around the world, now interrupted by the covid-19 pandemic. UNESCO listed Pompeii as a World Heritage Site in 1997 and, on several occasions, alerted the Italian government to the importance of preserving that site.
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