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In her Analecta Romana , Killgrove reveals that the Vesuvials

Feb. 1, 2018 by Paul Fletcher

In her Analecta Romana , Killgrove reveals that the Vesuvials lived as long as they did in the ruins for which they were reconstructed. In addition, they did live in the same small cave where a large amount of volcanic debris was stored at the time, which is known as the Camp of the Dead. The remnants of the Camp, which was demolished in the eruption, were unearthed by the Archaeologists. "They are known to have been there all along, and they were present at the time when Vesuvials were thought to have been present in the caves around them," she says.

While the Vesuvials never actually inhabited the other two cities, they would have existed in the same cave where they were created and would have been there for generations. They're also known to have been living in the same cave where an earthquake was felt.

The excavation of The Camp of the Dead and the Camp of the Dead, located in the ruins of a city in Italy, has been featured in the New Yorker's New England magazine.

The Archaeology of Vesuvius, from an Italian museum.

Tuck and Killgrove are part of a growing movement to understand how the Romans settled in Italy. They say a new study of the site has allowed them to learn much more about other Roman settlements in the region. The ruins of the Camp of the Dead, for example, are now under new conservation rules.

"It is interesting to note that as the site was being excavated, a group of archaeologists from the University of Padua, which is also the largest in the country, and the Roman Museum of Pompeii, the largest archaeology institution in the world, began to dig a huge series of tunnels, which were designed to move people and objects to and from the site," Killgrove says.

"This was a way of getting more people out of the caves. We think that what had happened to the Camp of the Dead was an important way to get people out of the cave and into the city. We also think that some of the inhabitants were probably in the area, maybe from the city, who were not able to find places to live there. In other words, a sort of 'no-go zone'."

The Archaeology of Vesuvius, from an Italian museum.

Killgrove and Tuck, who discovered the Camp in a similar study on the site of the camp