Video: Frozen in time: a shocking exhibition of the bodies of the victims of the volcanic eruption in Pompeii
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
On August 24, 79 g, the Vesuvius volcano threw out a flurry of poisonous gas and incandescent lava. The cloud moved to Pompeii without leaving a single inhabitant alive. The city died out in just a few minutes. 1936 years have passed, and today an exhibition has opened at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, visiting which you can understand the scale and scope of the disaster.
On May 26, 2015, the National Archaeological Museum of Naples opened an exhibition of dummies of 86 people killed during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. The exposition of the museum is a rather difficult sight. Many are shocked by the faces distorted by pain, the sintered skin and the open mouths frozen in a desperate cry of those buried under a multi-meter layer of ash.
Naturally, the museum exhibits not petrified bodies, but dummies, which are an exact copy of the bodies of the unfortunate. Museum director Massimo Osanna explained that until now the remains have not been displayed for ethical reasons: "even now it must be remembered that these are not plaster or bronze statues, but in fact real people who need to be treated with respect."
Archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli found the bodies in Pompeii in 1863 and came up with a way to recover them intact from under a multi-meter layer of ash. Excavations resumed only after almost 150 years.
Archaeologists found the city almost completely intact - bread was still in the ovens, men, women, children and pets were found "frozen in time" - as they were at the time of death.
The expression of horror was forever etched on their faces. Some of the victims of Pompeii were sitting, others were lying, when a cloud of hot gas and ash reached them.
The Greater Pompeii team of scientists, including archaeologists, engineers, anthropologists, restoration experts and radiologists, is currently conducting anthropological and genetic studies of the unfortunate victims of the eruption, hoping to learn more about the way of life of the people of ancient Pompeii.
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