Mysteries revealed in the city of Pompeii.

At the time of the Roman Empire in the year 79 after Christ, the eruption of Vesuvius devastated the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, one of the most dramatic images that the disaster left us were the holes left by the corpses of humans and animals, buried by volcanic materials.

In Pompeii, there are hundreds of them, which have been filled with plaster and in this way they show us a snapshot of the victims in the last moment of their lives, but curiously, these holes are hardly found in Herculaneum, there are very few of them, except in the old Port where the remains of more than 300 people who tried to escape by boat were found.

So what the archaeologists were wondering is what happened to the Herculaneum victims, it is a mystery that intrigued archaeologists and now seems to have been solved by a new investigation that gives a somewhat terrifying answer.

The study recently published in a prestigious scientific journal by a team of geologists led by Guido Giordano from the University of Rome and by the anthropologist Pier Paolo Petrone from the University of Federico II of Naples, has allowed the reconstruction of the events that affected buildings and humans during the eruption. According to the researchers, the first cloud of ash, which turned out to be of very short duration, entered the city with an initial temperature of between 500 and 600 degrees Celsius, reaching the beach at more than 500 degrees Celsius, causing the immediate death of all the people who took refuge in the buildings of the city and on the coast.

Most people just dissolved instantly, the heat burning and vaporizing body tissues and fats, a horrific example of how high temperatures got, was the discovery of a victim's vitrified brain, the rest of his body had simply disintegrated from the extremely high temperatures.

This research is important because it not only serves to learn about the past, but scientists also give a series of warnings and advice to follow for the future in the event of a possible new eruption of the volcano, something that is inevitable and will happen again sooner or later.

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