But not all the deaths were quick, suggest newly discovered human remains.
Unlike many Pompeii victims, the bodies didnt show signs that the cause of death was asphyxiation.
The two skeletons are described in a newstudyin the the E-Journal degli Scavi di Pompei.
The two newly discovered Pompeii victims likely didn’t die from asphyxiation and lived for hours after the eruption.© Archaeological Park of Pompeii
Those remains paint ahorrific pictureof what took place that day, as rocks and ash rained from the sky.
Other research suggests victims were baked or had their skull explode.
The falling ash and debris buried the city, leaving it in a remarkably preserved state.
Not everyone living in Pompeii at the time of the eruption necessarily died.
Some evidence indicates that there weresurvivors who were able to start new liveselsewhere and even prosper.
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