• Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Pretty sure it is wrong, though - most of the citizens died in their sleep of suffocation due to volcanic gas, it’s why Pompeii is so valuable as an archeological site, it’s almost perfectly preserved.

    • dwindling7373@feddit.itEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Apprently many of those were actually trapped inside their houses and just hold on, until they passed out from the gas.

      So they are not hugging because asleep but hugged because knowing they were dying.

      source: some recent documentary about these stuff, but I don’t trust myself enough.