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'It's really an extraordinary story,' historian Steven Tuck says of the Romans he tracked who survived the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius

"I have found two or three rich guys, but I found a couple hundred middle class and even some desperately poor people who ...

'People made it out of the cities alive': Tracing the survivors of Pompeii and Herculaneum, 2,000 years after Vesuvius erupted

Several lines of evidence, from chiseled inscriptions to missing horses, suggest that thousands of people survived the ...
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Pompeii Was Once Home to Lavish Villas with Towers for Elite Citizens, New Study Finds

Additionally, the renderings match narrative and visual descriptions from the time. Pliny the Younger's description of his ...