The strangest archaeological object ever found

The lost city of Pompeii preserved in Ash

Pompeii was an ancient city located near Naples, Italy. In the year 79 A.D., the infamous Mt. Vesuvius’s volcanic eruption transformed the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

The Volcanic heat and ash annihilated the city of Pompeii and all its residents.

However, the strangest thing is the fact that the people were burned into permanent positions capturing the exact moment of their death and did not succumb to the elements through time.

For a long time, archaeologists thought that all the victims died quickly, vaporizing from the hot ash and leaving their remains in the dust that cooled and hardened.

Later it was found out that victims were baked slowly to death.

Certainly one of the painful ways to die.