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European archaeologists have discovered the remains of a turtle in the ancient city of Pompeii in Italy that was carrying an egg and seeking refuge in the ruins of a house destroyed by an earthquake and then buried with volcanic ash and stones after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, which destroyed the city.
Sky News reported that the Free University of Berlin, the University of the Orient in Naples and the University of Oxford are excavating in the Stabbian Department of Baths in Pompeii, as well as the ruins of Pompeii. The tortoise, which was popular in southern Europe, took refuge in the rubble of a house that was badly destroyed during the earthquake and is not rebuilt.
The channel quoted the Director General of Pompeii Gabriel Zuchtregel as saying: It is not the first tortoise found in Pompeii, but today's discovery adds to the mosaic of relations between culture, nature, society and the environment that represents the history of ancient Pompeii.
Zuchtregel pointed out that some places in Pompeii were not used after the earthquake and before the eruption of the volcano to the point that wild animals entered them and wandered in and tried to lay their eggs inside them.
It is noteworthy that Pompeii was inhabited by about 20,000 people, and it is located at the foot of Mount Vesuvius near the Gulf of Naples in Italy, and only its ancient ruins remained from the city after the volcano erupted in a huge devastating eruption in 79 AD and destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum and buried Pompeii in ash for 1,600 years. Until it was discovered in the eighteenth century.
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