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Extraordinary discovery in Pompeii: A doctor identified thanks to his instruments

Interdisciplinary work made it possible to identify the body of a doctor among the victims of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. The plaster cast held a case with the instruments used by doctors at the time

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00:01Scholars have made an extraordinary discovery in Pompeii.
00:05At the archaeological site in Campania, the identity of one of the victims of the powerful eruption of Mount Vesuvius
00:13in 79 AD has now been revealed.
00:16The man was a doctor, caught off guard by the pyroclastic flow and identified through the medical instruments he carried.
00:24The breakthrough comes from new studies of a small case hidden inside the plaster of a human cast discovered during
00:33excavations in 1961, which contained small metal surgical tools.
00:39Near one of the victims, a carpet, was found an object that barely understood.
00:46We made an attack and then realized in this way that it was probably a doctor,
00:52a doctor who carried with him a small plaster of ardesia, of chirurgical instruments,
00:58all of them inside a organic material container, which we see here.
01:06The use of advanced technologies, including AI-assisted scans and 3D reconstructions,
01:14has made it possible to analyze the contents of the cast without compromising its integrity.
01:41The research is the result of interdisciplinary work that, thanks to cooperation of archaeologists concerned with the
01:49observators and dozens of experts, has revealed not only an object, but the story of a life cut short.
01:5634 страхes will escape from you.
01:59At the same time, you will be indentured as an object.
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