One of the biggest tragedies in Italian history was the
volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius which buried the town of Pompeii in ash,
other towns near the volcano also were affected by the eruption. Some of the
objects that lay beneath the city of ash have been discovered from excavations
of the city, these artefacts provide an extraordinarily detailed insight into
the life of the city before it was covered in ash. During the excavation of
Pompeii, plaster was used to fill in the voids between the ash layers that once
held human bodies. This allowed us to see the exact position the person was in
when they died.
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