Experts are referring to the remains as 'one of the best-preserved skeletons ever found in the ancient city.' The discovery also confirms for experts a long-held theory.
"This is the latest discovery at #Pompeii, which took place during an excavation campaign carried out in the Porta Sarno Necropolis area, on the initiative of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii and the European University of Valencia," the park continued in a follow-up tweet.
"Even for those like me, who have been specialized in funerary archaeology for some time, the extraordinary wealth of information offered by this tomb, from the inscription to the burials, the osteological finds and the painted façade, is exceptional," said University of Valencia Professor Llorenç AlapontArchaeologists were surprised to find such well-preserved remains, says, because Romans were often cremated.
"It is the first clear evidence of performances at Pompeii in the Greek language, which had previously been hypothesized on the basis of indirect indicators," said Gabriel Zuchtriegel, the director of Archaeological Park of Pompeii said in the official statement."Here we have another tessera of a large mosaic, namely the multi-ethnic Pompeii of the early Imperial Age, where Greek, the then lingua franca of the eastern Mediterranean, is indicated alongside Latin.
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