ANCIENT footprints of people who fled a fiery eruption of Mount Vesuvius 3,000 years ago have been unearthed by accident.
The markings had been made more than 1,000 years prior to the volcano’s infamous 79 AD that destroyed the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
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Excavations conducted recently alongside construction work on a gas pipeline near Vesuvius revealed the footprints which had been buried for three millennia.
Boffins believe they show Bronze Age villagers desperately fleeing an eruption.
Their marks, which had been preserved in the volcanic rock deposits for thousands of years,…
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