Main street in Pompeii (CC BY 3.0)

Archaeological Evidence Confirms Survivors Returned to Devastated Pompeii After 79 AD Eruption

Recent excavations at Pompeii have confirmed what archaeologists long suspected but struggled to document: survivors of Mount Vesuvius’s catastrophic 79 AD eruption returned to live among the ruins. The Pompeii archaeological discovery, announced Wednesday by site directors, provides concrete evidence that people inhabited the devastated Roman city for centuries after the volcanic disaster that killed