![The casts resurrect two bodies, master and slave: they are the almost intact bodies of two men, a forty-year-old wrapped in a warm wool cloak and his young slave already bent by the fatigues of life, the new exciting revelation of Pompeii, the fruit of an excavation that went on even in these hardest weeks of the pandemic and that ANSA Agency is able to document EXCLUSIVELY, Pompeii, 21 November 2020. "A truly exceptional discovery - underlines enthusiastic director Massimo Osanna, who has also headed the general management since September 2020 of public museums - because for the first time after more than 150 years from the first use of the technique it was possible not only to create perfectly successful casts of the victims, but also to investigate and document with new technologies the things they had with them in the moment in which they were hit and killed by the boiling vapors of the eruption ". ANSA / LUCA SPINA / ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK OF POMPEII
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Pompei, scoperti due corpi intatti nella villa suburbana di Civita Giuliana. FOTO
Si tratta di due uomini travolti dalla furia del vulcano mentre scappavano dall'eruzione del Vesuvio. Sono stati ritrovati dopo uno scavo, rimasti perfettamente intatti. "Stupefacente", ha commentato il ministro ai Beni Culturali Dario Franceschini. "Una scoperta davvero eccezionale”, ha detto entusiasta il direttore Massimo Osanna
![Calchi Pompei The casts resurrect two bodies, master and slave: they are the almost intact bodies of two men, a forty-year-old wrapped in a warm wool cloak and his young slave already bent by the fatigues of life, the new exciting revelation of Pompeii, the fruit of an excavation that went on even in these hardest weeks of the pandemic and that ANSA Agency is able to document EXCLUSIVELY, Pompeii, 21 November 2020. "A truly exceptional discovery - underlines enthusiastic director Massimo Osanna, who has also headed the general management since September 2020 of public museums - because for the first time after more than 150 years from the first use of the technique it was possible not only to create perfectly successful casts of the victims, but also to investigate and document with new technologies the things they had with them in the moment in which they were hit and killed by the boiling vapors of the eruption ". ANSA / LUCA SPINA / ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK OF POMPEII
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Pompei continua ancora a sorprendere. Nuovi scavi hanno portato alla luce i corpi integri e perfettamente conservati di due persone. Un ritrovamento che il ministro ai Beni Culturali Dario Franceschini ha definito "stupefacente". La scoperta è avvenuta anche grazie al fatto che, nonostante la chiusura del Parco a novembre, le indagini di scavo sono proseguite
Pompei, nuova scoperta: ritrovati due corpi intatti![Calchi Pompei The casts resurrect two bodies, master and slave: they are the almost intact bodies of two men, a forty-year-old wrapped in a warm wool cloak and his young slave already bent by the fatigues of life, the new exciting revelation of Pompeii, the fruit of an excavation that went on even in these hardest weeks of the pandemic and that ANSA Agency is able to document EXCLUSIVELY, Pompeii, 21 November 2020. "A truly exceptional discovery - underlines enthusiastic director Massimo Osanna, who has also headed the general management since September 2020 of public museums - because for the first time after more than 150 years from the first use of the technique it was possible not only to create perfectly successful casts of the victims, but also to investigate and document with new technologies the things they had with them in the moment in which they were hit and killed by the boiling vapors of the eruption ". ANSA / LUCA SPINA / ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK OF POMPEII
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Il ritrovamento è avvenuto solo alcuni giorni fa nello scavo in corso dal 2020 nella grande villa suburbana a Civita Giuliana, a 700 metri a nord ovest di Pompei. I corpi sono riemersi dalle ceneri grazie alla particolare tecnica dei calchi in gesso. Si tratta di due uomini, un signore quarantenne avvolto in un mantello di lana e il suo giovane schiavo in tunica, con le ossa già provate da anni di durissimo lavoro
Pompei: il mistero di “Mummia”, il graffito emerso durante gli scavi![Calchi Pompei The casts resurrect two bodies, master and slave: they are the almost intact bodies of two men, a forty-year-old wrapped in a warm wool cloak and his young slave already bent by the fatigues of life, the new exciting revelation of Pompeii, the fruit of an excavation that went on even in these hardest weeks of the pandemic and that ANSA Agency is able to document EXCLUSIVELY, Pompeii, 21 November 2020. "A truly exceptional discovery - underlines enthusiastic director Massimo Osanna, who has also headed the general management since September 2020 of public museums - because for the first time after more than 150 years from the first use of the technique it was possible not only to create perfectly successful casts of the victims, but also to investigate and document with new technologies the things they had with them in the moment in which they were hit and killed by the boiling vapors of the eruption ". ANSA / LUCA SPINA / ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK OF POMPEII
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"Una scoperta davvero eccezionale" per il direttore Massimo Osanna, perché "per la prima volta dopo più di 150 anni è stato possibile realizzare i calchi perfettamente riusciti delle vittime e delle cose che avevano con sé nell'attimo in cui sono stati investiti e uccisi dai vapori bollenti dell'eruzione". Si tratta dell'antica tecnica di realizzazione dei calchi ideata nell'Ottocento da Giuseppe Fiorelli, che prevede l'introduzione di una colata di gesso liquido nelle cavità lasciate dai corpi
Eruzione Pompei, scoperti neuroni integri nel cervello di una vittima![Calchi Pompei The casts resurrect two bodies, master and slave: they are the almost intact bodies of two men, a forty-year-old wrapped in a warm wool cloak and his young slave already bent by the fatigues of life, the new exciting revelation of Pompeii, the fruit of an excavation that went on even in these hardest weeks of the pandemic and that ANSA Agency is able to document EXCLUSIVELY, Pompeii, 21 November 2020. "A truly exceptional discovery - underlines enthusiastic director Massimo Osanna, who has also headed the general management since September 2020 of public museums - because for the first time after more than 150 years from the first use of the technique it was possible not only to create perfectly successful casts of the victims, but also to investigate and document with new technologies the things they had with them in the moment in which they were hit and killed by the boiling vapors of the eruption ". ANSA / LUCA SPINA / ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK OF POMPEII
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Nella stessa area della villa suburbana di Civita Giuliana c'erano già stati altri ritrovamenti: un cavallo completamente bardato per la partenza del suo padrone, ma anche un affresco e un graffito
Pompei, la Casa degli Amanti riapre al pubblico dopo 40 anni. VIDEO![Calchi Pompei The casts resurrect two bodies, master and slave: they are the almost intact bodies of two men, a forty-year-old wrapped in a warm wool cloak and his young slave already bent by the fatigues of life, the new exciting revelation of Pompeii, the fruit of an excavation that went on even in these hardest weeks of the pandemic and that ANSA Agency is able to document EXCLUSIVELY, Pompeii, 21 November 2020. "A truly exceptional discovery - underlines enthusiastic director Massimo Osanna, who has also headed the general management since September 2020 of public museums - because for the first time after more than 150 years from the first use of the technique it was possible not only to create perfectly successful casts of the victims, but also to investigate and document with new technologies the things they had with them in the moment in which they were hit and killed by the boiling vapors of the eruption ". ANSA / LUCA SPINA / ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK OF POMPEII
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Come spiega Osanna si tratterebbe infatti di una residenza "di altissimo pregio, con ambienti riccamente affrescati e arredati, sontuose terrazze digradanti che affacciavano sul golfo di Napoli e Capri, oltre ad un efficiente quartiere di servizio con l'aia, i magazzini per l'olio e per il vino che in profluvio di terrazzamenti e piscine si estendeva fino al mare"
Pompei, nuova scoperta: ritrovati due corpi intatti![Calchi Pompei The casts resurrect two bodies, master and slave: they are the almost intact bodies of two men, a forty-year-old wrapped in a warm wool cloak and his young slave already bent by the fatigues of life, the new exciting revelation of Pompeii, the fruit of an excavation that went on even in these hardest weeks of the pandemic and that ANSA Agency is able to document EXCLUSIVELY, Pompeii, 21 November 2020. "A truly exceptional discovery - underlines enthusiastic director Massimo Osanna, who has also headed the general management since September 2020 of public museums - because for the first time after more than 150 years from the first use of the technique it was possible not only to create perfectly successful casts of the victims, but also to investigate and document with new technologies the things they had with them in the moment in which they were hit and killed by the boiling vapors of the eruption ". ANSA / LUCA SPINA / ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK OF POMPEII
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Lo scavo, ancora in corso, potrà forse chiarire meglio nei prossimi mesi il ruolo di questi due uomini in fuga e dove fossero diretti. Quella che vediamo oggi resta una fotografia del momento nel quale la città è stata colpita dal flusso piroclastico per cui le persone morirono all'istante per shock termico. E i corpi rimasero nella posizione esatta in cui erano stati investiti dal flusso
Rubano reperti di Pompei e li restituiscono perché "portano sfortuna"![Calchi Pompei The casts resurrect two bodies, master and slave: they are the almost intact bodies of two men, a forty-year-old wrapped in a warm wool cloak and his young slave already bent by the fatigues of life, the new exciting revelation of Pompeii, the fruit of an excavation that went on even in these hardest weeks of the pandemic and that ANSA Agency is able to document EXCLUSIVELY, Pompeii, 21 November 2020. "A truly exceptional discovery - underlines enthusiastic director Massimo Osanna, who has also headed the general management since September 2020 of public museums - because for the first time after more than 150 years from the first use of the technique it was possible not only to create perfectly successful casts of the victims, but also to investigate and document with new technologies the things they had with them in the moment in which they were hit and killed by the boiling vapors of the eruption ". ANSA / LUCA SPINA / ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK OF POMPEII
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Ma sarebbe già definibile il momento in cui i due sono stati travolti dalla furia del vulcano: "Con buona approssimazione - spiega Osanna - deve essere avvenuto nelle prima mattinata del secondo giorno dell'eruzione", quindi intorno alle 9 del mattino del 25 ottobre di quel terribile 79 d.C.
![Calchi Pompei The casts resurrect two bodies, master and slave: they are the almost intact bodies of two men, a forty-year-old wrapped in a warm wool cloak and his young slave already bent by the fatigues of life, the new exciting revelation of Pompeii, the fruit of an excavation that went on even in these hardest weeks of the pandemic and that ANSA Agency is able to document EXCLUSIVELY, Pompeii, 21 November 2020. "A truly exceptional discovery - underlines enthusiastic director Massimo Osanna, who has also headed the general management since September 2020 of public museums - because for the first time after more than 150 years from the first use of the technique it was possible not only to create perfectly successful casts of the victims, but also to investigate and document with new technologies the things they had with them in the moment in which they were hit and killed by the boiling vapors of the eruption ". ANSA / LUCA SPINA / ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK OF POMPEII
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Intanto dalle prime indagini è emerso che a prima vittima è, quasi certamente, un ragazzo tra i 18 e i 23 anni, alto 1,56. Ha il capo reclinato, con i denti e le ossa del cranio ancora parzialmente visibili; indossa una tunica corta, di lunghezza non superiore al ginocchio, di cui è ben visibile l'impronta del panneggio sulla parte bassa del ventre, con ricche e spesse pieghe. La presenza di una serie di schiacciamenti vertebrali, inusuali per la giovane età del ragazzo, fa pensare che potesse svolgere lavori pesanti: ecco perché si pensa che fosse uno schiavo
![Calchi Pompei The casts resurrect two bodies, master and slave: they are the almost intact bodies of two men, a forty-year-old wrapped in a warm wool cloak and his young slave already bent by the fatigues of life, the new exciting revelation of Pompeii, the fruit of an excavation that went on even in these hardest weeks of the pandemic and that ANSA Agency is able to document EXCLUSIVELY, Pompeii, 21 November 2020. "A truly exceptional discovery - underlines enthusiastic director Massimo Osanna, who has also headed the general management since September 2020 of public museums - because for the first time after more than 150 years from the first use of the technique it was possible not only to create perfectly successful casts of the victims, but also to investigate and document with new technologies the things they had with them in the moment in which they were hit and killed by the boiling vapors of the eruption ". ANSA / LUCA SPINA / ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK OF POMPEII
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Durante la realizzazione di questo primo calco è avvenuta la scoperta delle ossa di un piede, che ha rivelato la presenza di una seconda vittima, che doveva avere un'età compresa tra i 30 e i 40 anni ed era alto circa 1,62. Il volto è riverso a terra, a un livello più basso del corpo, e il gesso ha delineato con precisione il mento, le labbra e il naso, mentre si conservano parzialmente a vista le ossa del cranio. Le braccia sono ripiegate con le mani sul petto, mentre le gambe sono divaricate e con le ginocchia piegate
![Calchi Pompei The casts resurrect two bodies, master and slave: they are the almost intact bodies of two men, a forty-year-old wrapped in a warm wool cloak and his young slave already bent by the fatigues of life, the new exciting revelation of Pompeii, the fruit of an excavation that went on even in these hardest weeks of the pandemic and that ANSA Agency is able to document EXCLUSIVELY, Pompeii, 21 November 2020. "A truly exceptional discovery - underlines enthusiastic director Massimo Osanna, who has also headed the general management since September 2020 of public museums - because for the first time after more than 150 years from the first use of the technique it was possible not only to create perfectly successful casts of the victims, but also to investigate and document with new technologies the things they had with them in the moment in which they were hit and killed by the boiling vapors of the eruption ". ANSA / LUCA SPINA / ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK OF POMPEII
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"Uno scavo molto importante quello di Civita Giuliana - dichiara Osanna - perché condotto insieme alla Procura di Torre Annunziata per scongiurare gli scavi clandestini e che restituisce scoperte toccanti. Queste due vittime cercavano forse rifugio nel criptoportico, dove invece vengono travolte dalla corrente piroclastica alle 9 di mattina. Una morte per shock termico, come dimostrano anche gli arti, i piedi, le mani contratti. Una morte che per noi oggi è una fonte di conoscenza incredibile" conclude