Wednesday, 25 August 2010

New thinking on what killed the people of Pompeii...

Image: the plaster cast of a man sits amid urns and fountains inside one of the storage rooms at the site of Pompeii, Global Post

New research shows that the population died from the extreme temperature carried by the volvano's pyroclastic flow, rather than suffocation by ash. For the full story, see here...

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