As we can read in the latest Ancient History Magazine (no. 44), recent research in Herculaneum and Pompeii proves that the inhabitants of both cities, as a result of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE, died in a different way.
Researchers from L’Università degli Studi Roma Tre studied the preserved human and material remains. The Pompeians were de facto buried alive by ashes and pumice; in turn, the inhabitants of Herculaneum were incinerated by the sudden, hot shock wave.
