Archaeologists uncovered the skeletons of two women and a child aged between 3 and 4 years who had sought shelter in a bakery from the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD that buried the ancient Roman commercial town in layers of lavic ash and pumice, as well as two frescoed walls featuring mythological scenes – Apollo and Daphne in one and Poseidon and Amymone in the other – near an atrium in the Regio IX, occupying the central part of Pompeii.
"These continual finds make us understand how much remains to be uncovered at Pompeii," Sangiuliano said.
"Now we are happily concluding the Great Pompeii Project, and I compliment the director, but we have already discussed about how to follow it up."
"The discovery of the three victims of the eruption has resulted in the assembling of a team made up of archaeologists, anthropologists, seismologists and archaeo-botanists who are working together to get the most data from these finds," Zuchtriegel explained.
"The three did not die from the direct effects of the eruption but due to the collapse of buildings during the first phase of the eruption, probably because of the earthquakes that accompanied it.
"Precisely because the Great Pompeii Project was such a great success, we want to go further and avert returning to a situation where we need an extraordinary funding, working instead in the viewpoint of sustainability and conservation of the patrimony."
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