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Roman city frozen in volcanic ash since 79 AD

Enrique is standing in front of a plaster cast of a body found in the Stabian baths. The casts were made when archaeologists excavated the site and found human shapes in the ash. The hot ash both buri
Enrique is standing in front of a plaster cast of a body found in the Stabian baths. The casts were made when archaeologists excavated the site and found human shapes in the ash. The hot ash both… © daryl_mitchell from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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