Pompeii couple clinging to gold as deadly volcanic ash buried them found in new discovery

Pompeii couple found clinging to gold as deadly volcanic ash buried them in new discoveryAP

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00:00Because we wanted, having arrived, let's say,

00:04something quite advanced.

00:07It is a large restoration and safety site

00:10that provides us with really precious information

00:13on the last moments of life of the people

00:16in the eruption of 79 AD,

00:19on the choices they made,

00:21what to bring and where to take refuge.

00:24And it is no longer an archeology as a history of art,

00:28as a study of architecture,

00:30but it is, as Luigi Settembrini said,

00:33when he saw the first traces of the victims of Pompeii,

00:37the agony, the human pain that we see.

00:40And Pompeii requires us this great attention,

00:44this expertise and this accuracy,

00:47also in the documentation, in the research,

00:51but above all the responsibility to know,

00:54to have to deal with a place of a catastrophe

00:58where, still after 2,000 years,

01:00we find the suffering and agony of the people

01:04who died in 79 AD.