The charcoal inscription supports that theory, the Pompeii archaeology team said. His letter to Tacitus was written some 20 years after the eruption in 79 AD. And the original copies have not ...

"In the eruption that buried Pompeii and Herculaneum, the deaths were instantaneous. People didn't know what was happening to them," added Pier Paolo Petrone, the anthropologist who had excavated ...