Posted on 05/29/2018 9:30:03 AM PDT by BBell
MILAN (AP) — Officials at the Pompeii archaeological site have announced a dramatic new discovery, the skeleton of a man crushed by an enormous stone while trying to flee the explosion of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 A.D.
Pompeii officials on Tuesday released a photograph showing the skeleton protruding from beneath a large block of stone that may have been a door jamb that had been "violently thrown by the volcanic cloud."
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The legs of a skeleton emerge from the ground beneath a large rock believed to have crushed the victim's bust during the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79, which destroyed the ancient town of Pompeii, at Pompeii's archeological site, near Naples, on Tuesday, May 29, 2018. The skeleton was found during recent excavations and is believed to be of a 35-year-old man with a limp who was hit by a pyroclastic cloud during the eruption. (Ciro Fusco/ANSA via AP)
Anthropologist Valeria Amoretti works with a brush on a skeleton of a victim of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79, which destroyed the ancient town of Pompeii, at Pompeii' archeological site, near Naples, on Tuesday, May 29, 2018. The skeleton was found during recent excavations and is believed to be of a 35-year-old man with a limp who was hit by a pyroclastic cloud during the eruption. (Ciro Fusco/ANSA via AP)
"I used to be a Roman solder, then I took an arrow to the knee." / Skyrim
Like Hillary getting run over by the Trump train.
I just realized how much archaeological damage Guiseppe Fiorelli did with his plaster “art”.
“The Plaster Bodies Are Full Of Bones”
https://www.ranker.com/list/facts-about-bodies-at-pompeii/andy-miller
(I suppose not as bad as Schliemann and Cousteau and their fondness for TNT)
Cartoon physics 101: only works if you’re a toon.
It’s Kiefer Sutherland.
Like Hillary getting run over by the Trump train.
The thing about Pompeii is, it’s portrayed as a sudden event with no warning. Those poor victims!
Actually, Vesuvius had been erupting on and off for 16 years before that. So there were plenty of warnings that this was a dangerous area, which many people decided to ignore ... and ended up paying the price
Doesn’t Nature / God usually give some kind of warning of big events? Whether people want to heed that warning is their own choice
AlGore must find some way to stop volcanos. Please save us, Al.
I’ve read Pompeii was destroyed due to promiscuity and homosexuality.
“Actually, Vesuvius had been erupting on and off for 16 years before that. So there were plenty of warnings that this was a dangerous area, which many people decided to ignore ... and ended up paying the price”
FWIW, it was also allegedly the Volcano/Bacchanalia season.
“That’s gotta hurt!” GC
It was going to leave a mark also.
Yikes.
Jimmy Hoffa! Is that YOU? ;)
It doesn’t look like it hurt for very long.
‘pyroclastic cloud’ I had to look that one up:
A pyroclastic flow (also known as a pyroclastic density current or a pyroclastic cloud) is a fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter (collectively known as tephra) that moves away from a volcano reaching speeds of up to 700 km/h (430 mph). The gases can reach temperatures of about 1,000 °C (1,830 °F).
At least it would be over in an instant!
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