Getty imagesNew evidence suggests that people returned to live among the ruins of Pompei after being destroyed by a volcanic explosion in the ancient Roman city.
Archaeologists believe that some survivors who could not take the risk of starting a new life came back to the site and joined the search for others to settle.
Pompei was home to more than 20,000 people, before Mount Vesuvius exploded into AD79, before its redistribution in the 16th century, burying and conservation of the most of the city -.
Last speculation had made that the remaining people had returned to the ruins, and archaeologists on the site said in a statement on Wednesday that the theory was confirmed by new research.
“Thanks to the new excavation, the picture is now clear: post -79 Pompei remarges, as an uncertain and low as an uncertain and gray aglomeration, a type of camp, still a fountain between Pompei’s still recognizable ruins, which was once,” Site’s director, Gabriel Zuchel said.
Archaeologists said that the informal settlement continued till the 5th century.
EPAEvidence suggests that people lived without specific infrastructure and services of Roman city, and ruins provided opportunity to find valuable items, the researchers said.
It is believed that people live in the upper floors of the houses above the ash, in which the lower floors are converted into a basement.
The city’s destruction has “monopoly on memory”, Mr. Zucrigel said, and to reach the well -protected artifacts of Pompei, in the crowd, “the fainting marks of rebirth of the site were really removed and often swept away without any documentation”.
The site is now a world famous tourist attraction and provides a window in Roman life.
