Imagine starting routine maintenance on an underground pipelineonly to uncover thousands of years of history.
Thats exactly what happened to employees in Italy working on a methane pipeline south of Naples, near Pompeii.
It served as an eerie precursor to the Roman-era eruption some 1,800 years later.
Bronze Age footprints in volcanic debris.© Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Provinces of Salerno and Avellino via Facebook
Indeed, the Bronze Age eruption wasnt a strong enough omen to keep people away.
Archaeologists found evidence of semicircular huts dating to the Bronze-Iron Age transition, sometime between 1200 and 900 BCE.
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Traces of the longhouses. © Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Provinces of Salerno and Avellino via Facebook.
