Not a pleasant death

While the bodies rotted away over the millennia, their gimaces of pain at the moment of death was preserved in the ash that surrounded their bodies. Just pour plaster into the ash cavaties and this is what you find - often with human skulls and teeth intact. It looks like dying of poisonous gas (it's this that killed the inhabitants) is not a pleasant way to go.

Mummies found in Italy

September 9th 2007
That's right "The Mummies" arrived safe & sound in London & we dragged them off to enjoy the sun drenched coasts and charming swarthy men of Amalfi. Well, perhaps they just enjoyed the men's flattery, as remember "the Daddies" were stuck in the office at home. Mum, and her close friend Mary travelled over to this side of the world to celebrate Mary's 60th and visit their 'babies'. ‘The mumm ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

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