Two male skeletons were found beneath a collapsed wall in the Casti Amanti, or House of Chaste Lovers, the site said in a statement Tuesday.
Archaeologists in Pompeii recently unearthed the well-preserved remains of two people believed to have died in an earthquake that accompanied the infamous volcanic eruption there almost 1,500 years ago.
Around 20% of the city’s population perished in the catastrophic Italian eruption, the site stated. The Casti Amanti duo – who are believed to have been around 55 years old – were likely trying to flee the ash and lava by sheltering in an unused utility room when the wall collapsed. Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the archaeology site, added that scientific advances are allowing experts to paint a more vivid picture of the doomed city’s final days.
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