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Anthropology

miyazaki

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5. That and thermal shock.

Reply to cstanleytech (Reply #3)

Thu May 17, 2018, 09:53 PM

May 2018

Anyone remaining alive in Herculaneum and Pompeii didn't have time to suffocate as they were incinerated almost instantaneously from the onrush of the superheated air and gas from the pyroclastic flow.

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Archaeologists find street of balconies in Italy's Pompeii [View all] Judi Lynn May 2018 OP

As a kid I was fascinated by Pompeii -- RandomAccess May 2018 #1

Look up "pyroclastic flow" spinbaby May 2018 #2

Its not just that either some of it was probably due to some of them dying due to toxic gases cstanleytech May 2018 #3

That and thermal shock. miyazaki May 2018 #5

Pompeii LittleGirl May 2018 #4

Thanks. I just spent over an hour looking at pics. notdarkyet May 2018 #6

I didn't even know that they were still excavating Pompeii. BobTheSubgenius May 2018 #7