Scans show Pompeii victims 'in good health' [other than being dead]

The Local ^ | September 29, 2015 | Patrick Browne

[Jack Hydrazine]

This brings to mind a quote from an episode on Doctor Who:

Pompei. We’re in Pompei. And it’s volcano day!

[Politicalkiddo]

And from so long ago, too.

[Verginius Rufus]

Pliny the Elder was the uncle of Pliny the Younger, not his father.

Pliny the Younger wrote a letter to Tacitus describing how his uncle died--we have that letter (readily available in English translation such as the Penguin translation of Pliny's letters...but without the illustrations of Eros in Pompeii) but the part of Tacitus' Histories based on that has not been preserved.

[SunkenCiv]

;’)

[Larry Lucido]

Lava soap?

[SunkenCiv]

I doubt that the average life expectancy figures for the Roman Empire are based on much of anything. If the average really had been 21, that would stem from a high infant mortality rate (a problem everywhere until about a century ago) and large percentage of the population living in slavery.

[colorado tanker]

Other than that, Domina, how did you enjoy Pompeii?

[SunkenCiv]

“Other than that, Domina, how did you enjoy Pompeii, you psychologizing old mantrap?”

[well, okay, so, a little obscure]

I wonder how this got missed? The death assemblage near the Roman-era wharves is the only large collection of basically complete Roman-era dead ever found:

Bones of the victims at Roman Herculaneum
Ashleigh Murszewski 2015-08-06
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2015/08/bones-of-the-victims-at-roman-herculaneum/14643

[colorado tanker]

Ladies and gentlemen, be seated
Mister Bones, Mister Bones
How do you feel, Mister Bones?