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Pompeii, discoveries continue: frescoes and three more skeletons resurface
Relentless work continues at the archaeological site of Pompeii, the city near Naples that was destroyed by the tremendous eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. Researchers have unearthed the skeletons of three more victims, as well as numerous frescoes.
The bodies found are believed to be those of two adults and a child of about three to four years old, who, according to the archaeologists' hypothesis, had sought shelter in a bakery to escape the surrounding destruction.
The archaeological site also uncovered two frescoed walls with mythological scenes near an atrium, namely Apollo and Daphne in one and Poseidon and Amimon in the other.
Three skeletons returned to light victims of the eruption of Pompeii
Relentless work continues at the archaeological site of Pompeii, the city near Naples that was destroyed by the tremendous eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. Researchers have unearthed the skeletons of three more victims, as well as numerous new frescoes.
Three skeletons returned to light victims of the eruption of Pompeii
The bodies found are believed to be those of two adults and a child of about three to four years of age, who, according to archaeologists' speculation, had sought shelter in a bakery to escape the surrounding destruction.
Three skeletons returned to light victims of the eruption of Pompeii
The remains of these victims have come to light thanks to new excavations, which began in February, in the so-called 'Regio IX' of Pompeii, i.e. one of the nine quarters into which the site of Pompeii is divided. The excavation involved an area covering some 3200 square metres, almost an entire city block of the ancient city buried in 79 AD by Vesuvius.
Three skeletons returned to light victims of the eruption of Pompeii
The skeletons were found in an area that had already been excavated, where only 40 cm of intact soil remained. These were placed in direct contact with the floor, and showed, along with evidence of major postmortem settlement processes, also a great deal of perimortem trauma caused by the collapse of the ceiling above, the fragments of which were mixed with white pumiceous lapilli, which characterised the early stages of the Plinian eruption of AD 79 in Pompeii.
Three skeletons returned to light victims of the eruption of Pompeii
In the atrium of the place where they were found, a room with an adjoining oven, two cubicles were also found that preserved some frescoes with scenes from the myth: Poseidon and Amimon in the first, Apollo and Daphne in the second.
Three skeletons returned to light victims of the eruption of Pompeii
Two of the three skeletons found have already been sent to the appropriate laboratories for analysis, while only one has been left at the site for the time being. Not far from the remains of the victims of the eruption, archaeologists found an oven that, according to studies, could have contained between 40 and 50 loaves of bread. Near the area, the absence of a millstone for grain was noted, which is nowhere to be found: the scholars' hypothesis is that this millstone was taken away in the 19th century, when the area was explored for Bourbon excavations.
Three skeletons returned to light victims of the eruption of Pompeii
The amount of finds still waiting to come to light at the site of Pompeii is enormous. Suffice it to say that over the centuries so much research has been carried out in the same area, and each time new things come to the surface. Researchers are able to discover new things about the life of the people of Campania in the first years after the death of Christ, as well as more and more data about those terrible days that destroyed an entire population.
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Nature
22/09/2023
Climate change is presenting us with greater and different challenges than ever before. In fact, the lack of rainfall and snowfall is pushing the world towards water shortages. Of course, we are not only talking about drinking water, which is used to quench our thirst, but also the water needed for energy plants and agriculture.
Some of our behaviors in fact, still linked to the old habits of abundance of our parents, are totally detrimental to the environment, as well as useless for practical purposes. Of course, there is a lack of proper environmental culture in schools in the first place, and that is where we step in.
In this little guide, we want to give you 10 quick tips on how to save water in everyday life.
science
20/09/2023
It often happens, especially during adolescence, that one realizes that one is more gifted in languages than in mathematics, or vice versa. Or that one's thought processes are different from those of a friend or classmate. This aspect depends not only on personal interests, but also on the way our brains work.
In fact, the way to process information is different from person to person, but it can be grouped into some predefined categories. Some are more predisposed to creative work, others to relationships with other people, and still others can hear and understand music in a way unthinkable for others.
According to a study carried out since the 1980s by the American psychologist Howard Gardner, we have as many as nine different types of intelligence, to which the tenth would be added. These intelligences could also theoretically be linked to certain types of jobs.
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19/09/2023
Food has undoubtedly been of paramount importance in the development of our modern civilization. Food in particular made our bodies stronger and helped extend the average lifespan of early humans by many decades.
The ability to create particular foods and dishes, in short, to process food, is still valued today, and, interestingly, many of the things that are the basis of our meals go back to ideas far into the past. Bread, wine, beer, oil, cheese, so many things go back even thousands of years.
In this short article, we will take you along with us to discover the origins of our most common foods.
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