Pompei

Places in this region

Image of Plaster Citizens of Pompeii located in Pompei, Italy | Garden of the Fugitives, Pompeii
Pompei, Italy

Plaster Citizens of Pompeii

Their last minutes captured in plaster

Those that did not flee the city of Pompeii in August of 79 AD were doomed. Buried for 1700 years under 30 feet of mud and ash and reduced by the centuries to skeletons, they remained entombed... »

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