@stephthearchaeologist: Pompeii had people in houses and in the street while Herculaneum was almost empty in comparison. People were inside the boathouses and on the beach. Desperately trying to get help which would never come #bonetok #archaeology #archaeologist #History #historytok #learnontiktok #academictiktok

Vannah✝️ :

Fun fact: this is exactly what would happen to the surrounding states of the Yellowstone Volcano in MT/WY. We would die instantly or almost, from either the eruption or suffocation from the ash/soot.

Table Ship :

Pompeii died so fast they were almost frozen as they lived. Herculaneum was a mad dash for the boats, but there are never enough boats.

🌻🦒「STARFLOWER✟星の花」👩🏼‍🎤🌻 :

Them just all hugging eachother 😭 Oh my soul :(

[email protected] :

Those bones were people once. I can’t imagine how scared they were.

qnz8711 :

The sadder part is that these people died unimaginably horrible deaths. I remember reading that they essentially boiled to death in those rooms.

HempHippie🍞🍃 Toasty Girl :

They look huddled up together :// this is so sad 😭

✨🩷🎀Katt🎀🩷✨ :

There’s one that I think of all the time, of two women covering a girl. It’s believed the two women were her nannies/maids as the girl was found with silver hoops marking her as someone who was wealthy. I imagine those two women poured their hearts and souls into caring for her and they died trying to protect her.

☆Taly!☆ :

They were all people once. Each individual had a story, a life, a soul..

Ash 🍉 :

Sometimes I like to believe someone got out okay 😭

🪶Witchy Native Woman🍉 :

It’s wild to me that volconlogists in the early 2000’s had to burn pig bones at a high heat to prove the theory that these people passed from a pyroclastic flow. The pig bones showed the same type of charring that the victims of Herculaneum had on their bones 🥺. I wonder how many other civilizations or cities are buried underneath other towns with volcanic activity

robinx333 :

Its like looking at our future selves

EndlessAllison :

They know they didn’t escape because we have firsthand accounts of everyone stranded on the shore they just don’t know where they all are

Andy Day :

What would have been the cause of death for them? If the boat house was facing away from the volcano then hypothetically shouldn’t they have been able to safely hide there?

Autumn M :

they've come across a woman and a small child (boy I think), and after some testing it was found they weren't even related. the woman was using her body to shield the child. that child was probably lost, scared, and confused, and this woman tried her hardest to protect him. 😭

𝜗✝️𝜚 Maedb ⋆｡˚ :

out of the 20,000 residents 1000 died which is still sad but grateful that atleast 19,000 still manage to live

Felaróf :

I stood there in March and I was surprised that they're on display so openly. I expected the doors to be closed. In one of the boat houses was the skeleton of a small animal, too. maybe a dog, I don't remember. someone even tried to save a pet ...

Arch Slayngel :

Just a child 🥺🥺🥺

😈😈😈😈 :

You’re my favorite archeologist to follow because you humanize the remains you study. Thank you for always giving me something to cry about, I wish every archeologist had the same love for humanity that you do.

ProfessorNibbles :

Flesh and meat charred from bone forever more turned to stone

𝙟𝙤𝙨𝙨 :

where did their clothes and hair go

CarolYeo :

What I found wild was that the blast reached Sorrento and Capri..Like that is pretty far away. You wouldn't have had a chance to get away.

Aurora Glardon :

hope :

Walking through Herculaneum is so heavy

sarah :

The animals shattered my heart

Andy Day :

Can anybody recommend a good documentary on this topic? I’d like to start educating my children on historic events