On October 24, 79 AD, around 1 p.m., a deluge of ashes fell on Pompeii.
In the space of 20 minutes, the eruption of Vesuvius takes the lives of 2,000 inhabitants of the ancient city.
Nearly 20 centuries after this disaster documented by the stories of Pliny the Younger, bodies of victims of the volcano are still discovered under the ground of the Italian tourist site.
But what's left?
Enough to paint portraits.
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