(ANSA) - HERCULANEUM, OCTOBER 15 - The partially mutilated skeleton of a man that the avalanche of fire and gas spat out by the erupting Vesuvius stopped a step away from the sea and the mirage of salvation. 25 years after the last excavations, arriving from Herculaneum, documented exclusively by ANSA, a discovery that will be able to shed new light on the last moments of life of the town buried like nearby Pompeii by the eruption of 79 AD. "A find from which we expect a lot", underlines the director Francesco Sirano, from 2017 at the guide of the Archaeological Park. While the minister of culture Franceschini speaks of a "sensational discovery". "It is excellent news first of all because the discovery is due to the recovery in this place, after so many years,of a scientific excavation conducted by the technical staff of the ministry ", he underlines. The theater is that of the ancient beach of the town, the same place where in the 80s and 90s of the twentieth century, they were brought to light, piled up in small warehouses overlooking the ancient beach, the remains of more than 300 fugitives who had sought shelter while waiting to be rescued from the fleet of Pliny the Elder. The new excavations, which have engaged the archaeologists of the monumental Villadei Papiri retracing what in the ancient city was both on the seafront and which still remains the only completely preserved seafront of a Roman city.a male of mature age who according to the first anthropological tests should have been between 40 and 45 years old, were found at the base of the very high stone wall which today closes the ancient sea front. He was lying with his head back towards the sea and surrounded by heavy charred driftwood, even the beam of a roof that might have smashed his head. The bones appear bright red, "it is the imprint left by the victim's blood", he says, explaining that it is a consequence of the very particular combustion process caused in Herculaneum by the current of magma, ash and gas arrived from Vesuvius.He was lying with his head back towards the sea and surrounded by heavy charred driftwood, even the beam of a roof that might have smashed his head. The bones appear bright red, "it is the imprint left by the victim's blood", he says, explaining that it is a consequence of the very particular combustion process caused in Herculaneum by the current of magma, ash and gas arrived from Vesuvius.He was lying with his head back towards the sea and surrounded by heavy charred driftwood, even the beam of a roof that might have smashed his head. The bones appear bright red, "it is the imprint left by the victim's blood", he says, explaining that it is a consequence of the very particular combustion process caused in Herculaneum by the current of magma, ash and gas arrived from Vesuvius.ash and gas from Vesuvius.ash and gas from Vesuvius.
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