Excavations at a suburban villa outside ancient Pompeii this month unearthed the remains of two dwellers frozen in time by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius that happened nearly 2,000 years ago.
Archeologists tentatively identified the two victims as a wealthy Pompeian landowner and a younger enslaved person after they made plaster casts of them which captured a remarkable amount of details.
The discovery offered new insight into the famous eruption, such as the woolen clothing of the two protagonists that would suggest the eruption occured in October 79 A.D. rather than in August as previously believed.