Home » Roman discoveries » Inhabitants of Pompeii and Herculaneum died in different ways

Inhabitants of Pompeii and Herculaneum died in different ways

This post is also available in: Polish (polski)

Photograph of casts of bodies from Pompeii

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.

Read more

Battle of Ruspina and Thapsus Great Roman civil war Fullones in ancient Rome Battle of the Allia and plunder of Rome by Gauls Tiberius
Sources
  • Ancient History Magazine, 44
Support IMPERIUM ROMANUM!

IMPERIUM ROMANUM needs your support!

If you like the content I collect on the website and share it on social media channels, I will be grateful for your support. Even the smallest amounts will allow me to pay for further corrections and improvements on the site and pay for the server.

Support IMPERIUM ROMANUM!
Subscribe to newsletter

Discover secrets of ancient Rome!

If you want to be up to date with the newest articles on the website and discoveries from ancient Rome, subscribe to the newsletter, which is sent each Saturday.

Subscribe to newsletter!
Classic mobile version