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4,000-year-old footprints near Pompeii show people fleeing Mount Vesuvius eruption thousands of years before the famous one
Footprints from people and animals feeling the eruption of Vesuvius in 1995 B.C. were recently discovered in a town near ...
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Pompeii's dark omen: Ancient footprints show people had to escape an eruption of Mount Vesuvius 1,800 years BEFORE the one that buried the famous Roman city
They would have trodden in the volcanic material to create the prints, but whether they successfully escaped with their lives is unknown. Before the famous AD 79 event, Mount Vesuvius erupted ...