This picture shows two skeletons that archeologists believe were men who died when a wall collapsed on them during the powerful earthquakes that accompanied the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed the ancient city of Pompeii in the first century.Â
Two more skeletons have been found on the ground of Pompeii, Italy’s ancient Roman city that was wiped out by an eruption of the Mount Vesuvius volcano nearly 2,000 years ago.
MILAN � The discovery of two skeletons buried beneath a collapsed wall in the Pompeii archaeological site point to deaths by powerful earthquakes that accompanied the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the first century, experts said, in addition to the victims of volcanic ash and gas.
This picture shows two skeletons that archeologists believe were men who died when a wall collapsed on them during the powerful earthquakes that accompanied the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed the ancient city of Pompeii in the first century.Â
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The two skeletons believed to be men at least 55 years old were found in the Casti Amanti, or House of Chaste Lovers, beneath a wall that collapsed before the area was covered in volcanic material. The area was likely undergoing reconstruction work at the time of the eruption in A.D. 79, following an earthquake a few days earlier.
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A detail of the frescoes that adorn the walls of the Room of the Cupids, part of the Ancient Roman Domus Vettiorum, or House of Vettii, on Dec. 14, 2022, in the Pompeii Archeological Park near Naples in southern Italy.
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Colums frame the peristylium, or courtyard, in the center of the Ancient Roman Domus Vettiorum, or House of Vettii, on Dec. 14, 2022, in the Pompeii Archeological Park near Naples in southern Italy.
Andrew Medichini, Associated Press
People admire frescoes in a triclinium, or dining room, called Hall of Ixium, part of the Ancient Roman Domus Vettiorum, or House of Vettii, on Dec. 14, 2022, in the Pompeii Archeological Park near Naples in southern Italy.
Andrew Medichini, Associated Press
A view of the impluvium, the rain water-catchment pool in the atrium of the Ancient Roman Domus Vettiorum, or House of Vettii, on  Dec. 14, 2022, in the Pompeii Archeological Park near Naples in southern Italy.
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