A multi-institutional team of archaeologists, chemists and environmental scientists using portable X-ray fluorescence on victims of the Pompeii eruption in 79 AD finds that they likely died of asphyxiation. The group has published their results in PLOS ONE.
Dr. Gianni Gallello measuring Cast #57 by pXRF, together with Dr. Llorenç Alapon at Pompeii Archaeological Park. Credit: Alapont et al, CC-BY 4.0
A multi-institutional team of archaeologists, chemists and environmental scientists using portable X-ray fluorescence on victims of the Pompeii eruption in 79 AD finds that they likely died of asphyxiation. The group has published their results inIn 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius famously erupted, covering the nearby Roman-era city of Pompeii with ash, pumice and other debris, killing thousands of the people who lived there. Over many years, the city has been excavated, revealing their remains.
Many of the people of Pompeii were buried by the volcanic material raining down on them. Over time, as the bodies decomposed in the quickly hardening ash, a void formed in the original shape of the dead body. In the 1800s, several archaeologists got the idea to fill the voids with plaster and after it hardened, to remove the ash—that left plaster figures shaped liked the people who had died.
Prior nondestructive testing of such casts showed that the bones of the dead person were hidden within them. Prior research has also suggested that interactions between the bones and the plaster likely led to contamination, making it difficult to reach any conclusions by studying them.
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