• 01/31/2025

Pre-Pompeii: Footprints of villagers fleeing Mount Vesuvius found in Salerno

Jerusalem Post

 Before Pompeii: Footprints of villagers fleeing ancient Mount Vesuvius eruption discovered in Salerno. (photo credit: Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts, and Landscape for the Provinces of Salerno and Avellino.)
Near the footprint site, archaeologists uncovered burials in tombs covered with tuff slabs, some engraved with decorations. Most of the burials belong to children.

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-839562