A study of the remains of people who died as a result of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the seventy-ninth year of our era, showed that the inhabitants of the destroyed by the elements of ancient Roman cities died a terrible death.
The inhabitants of the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabia, who died in the eruption, literally exploded their heads - writes the scientific publication Plos One.
“There is a rather strange black and red mineral sediment on the bones and inside the skulls of the victims. Analysis showed that this chemical is formed mainly by iron and its oxides. We are talking about traces of boiled blood,”- say the Italian archaeologists, who made a shocking conclusion.
Scientists believe that people, taken by surprise by streams of hot lava (its temperature ranged from two to five hundred degrees Celsius), died almost instantly, as a hot volcanic substance made their blood boil. In addition, the skulls exploded in the victims of the eruption - too high pressure was formed in them as a result of brain boiling.
Some people, as scientists have established, tried to escape from the lava in the coastal strip, but in the end they were trapped and also died.
Kolesnikov Andrey