Pompeii victim identified as Roman physician killed while fleeing Vesuvius eruption

More than sixty years after archaeologists excavated Pompeii’s Garden of the Fugitives, researchers identified the likely profession of one victim from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in CE 79. Evidence hidden inside a plaster cast points to a physician who died while trying to escape the city with tools...

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