In Pompeii, Italy, archeologists excavated the hollows in a volcanic area and found preserved dead bodies covered by molten rock during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.
Some of dead relics found were a mother and her child curled up, and a boy about four years old, finding shelter with his family.
86 of the bodies that turned into ash were covered in plaster casts and are being restored in a laboratory near the Pompeii excavation. This restoration is due for an exhibit entitled "Pompeii and Europe" at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, Italy.
The Dailymail UK reports that the remains revealed how the victims died. National Archaeological Museum conservator Stefania Giudice shares the experience can be very affecting.
"Even though it happened 2,000 years ago, it could be a boy, a mother or a family. It's human archaeology, not just archaeology," she said in her interview with journalist Natashas Sheldon.
As one of the world's most damaging volcanic catastrophes, History reports the eruption of Mount Vesuvius killed about 2,000 thousand Romans.
The Italian city was abandoned many years after, until a group of explorers dug up the area to look for ancient artifacts in 1748. Archeologists continued the excavation for almost three centuries, and Pompeii was found almost exactly how it looked like thousands of years ago under "millions of tons of volcanic ash."
Metro UK reports the Pompeii surge "released 100,000 times the thermal energy" than the bombing of Hiroshima during World War II.
In a temperature level of 300 degrees Celsius, the volcano's heat contorted the corpses dug out by the group of Volcanologist Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo. He said the eruption was "enough to kill hundreds of people in a fraction of a second".
These recent developments are sure to attract people all over the world, who are interested in Pompeii's rich and tragic history.
