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FILE: A conservator glances at a body of a victim who was frozen in its last moment when Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupted in 79 A.D

Video. Mount Vesuvius eruption victims feature in landmark Pompeii exhibition

Updated: 12/03/2026 - 15:45 GMT+1

Casts of victims of Pompeii’s tragic destruction after Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 are going on display together for the first time in a new permanent exhibition. The residents are captured in the positions in which they died, alongside everyday items, buried for centuries under lava and ash.

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