Vita gazette – Bone remains found which, in all probability, belong to two women and a ¾-year-old child who had found refuge in a bakery during the eruption of 79 AD.

The excavations of Pompeii continue to bring to light the remains of past lives. After the recent discovery of two skeletons in the Casti Armanti excavation, archaeologists have unearthed other bone remains during the ongoing excavations in Regio IX, in an area hitherto unexplored.

During the excavations of a still unexplored area, archaeologists found three skeletons belonging, according to the first analyses, to two women and a child who died in the earthquake that followed the eruption of Vesuvius.

They would belong to three victims of the eruption of 79 AD, who had taken refuge in search of salvation in an oven, but who instead found their death under the collapse of the attics due to the earthquake that followed the sudden eruption of Vesuvius.

Based on the first in situ analyses, the remains would correspond to two adult women and a child approximately three or four years of age. The skeletons were found in an environment previously excavated, where only 40 centimetres of stratigraphy remained.

Furthermore, near an atrium, two frescoed cubicles with scenes from the myth of Poseidon and Amymone the First and Apollo and Daphne the Second have re-emerged. In the first of the two rooms, there are still traces of the charred furniture due to a fire that broke out during the catastrophe.

Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano said: “It is a pang to the heart, also because it is very probable that they did not die from the eruption’s effects, but from the earthquakes that announced the eruption of 79 AD”.