Vesuvian refugees
James Spinti <[email protected]>
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Archaeologist Finds New Evidence Of The Romans Who Escaped Mt. Vesuvius The plaster casts of Romans killed when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. are internationally famous, but scholars have long known that more people escaped the volcano's destruction of the Bay of Naples than were suffocated by it. New evidence from inscriptions provides clues to where these refugees settled. In a forthcoming open-access article in the journal Analecta Romana, archaeologist and historian Steven Tuck of Miami University explains how his creation of a database of Roman last names led him to match up records from Pompeii and Herculaneum with records from the parts of Italy unaffected by the destructive power of Vesuvius. The rest here: https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fkristinakillgrove%2F2019%2F02%2F19%2Farchaeologist-finds-new-evidence-of-the-romans-who-escaped-mt-vesuvius%2F%2338fae39d64d8&data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.edu%7C5f2dba110c4540e53f9708d696ee3a39%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C1%7C636862347261636674&sdata=5BA9KbQFk0hH93VfoT8OpHnW5tLqvVMAvdoiHlknqh8%3D&reserved=0 Safelinks avoidance: https://www [.] forbes [.] com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2019/02/19/archaeologist-finds-new-evidence-of-the-romans-who-escaped-mt-vesuvius/#38fae39d64d8 Enjoy! James _______________________ James Spinti Proofreading and copyediting of ancient Near Eastern and biblical studies monographs E-mail: jdspinti at gmail dot com Phone: 260-445-3118 1835 South Park St Red Wing MN 55066