A new research paper created by a team of Italian archaeologists has suggested that Mount Vesuvius burned bodies quicker than a crematorium. Not only that but within the paper, the scientists suggest that the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 throughout such extreme heat into the surrounding area that locals living in Herculaneum, a town 4 miles away from the volcano, may have experienced some of the most horrifying deaths imaginable.Specifically, after new investigations on the skeletal remains of those killed by the natural disaster the scientists theorize that victims would have had their blood and other bodily fluids boil as well as causing their muscles, flesh and brains rapidly burnt to a crisp. Furthermore, due to such extreme changes of the person’s biological state, the victim’s skull in many cases exploded.
If that wasn’t enough, when the scientists found the locals in “pugilistic attitude,” the position achieved when limbs curl due to muscles contracting in the heat, they also found signs indicating that their muscles “disappeared” faster than bodies burning in a crematorium.
