Pompeii gay couple
IT is an iconic image which conveys the human dimension of one of the world’s worst natural disasters that still resonates 2,000 years later.
Two bodies found wrapped in a poignant welcome in their last moments as they were covered beneath molten rock and layers of ash in the ancient municipality of Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius violently erupted in 79 A.D.
The bodies were dubbed "The Two Maidens" when they were first discovered but in a startling discovery this week scientists found the two bodies were actually male ... raising speculation that they may contain been gay lovers.
"Pompeii never ceases to amaze," said Massimo Osanna, director-general of the world-famous archaeological site.
"We always imagined that it was an embrace between women. But a CAT scan and DNA have revealed that they are men," he said.
"You can't say for sure that the two were lovers. But considering their position, you can make that hypothesis. It is tough to say with certainty."
For the past two years restorers have been operational on the carefully preserved plaster casts of 86 victims who were trapped in Pompeii tracking the deadly eruption of Vesuvius.
The bodies of the "Two Mai
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A BOMBSHELL new discovery may have revealed the hidden identity of Pompeii's two maidens - and their relationship would have been scandalous.
The new theory, if true, would undo the vast majority of pre-existing ideas about their connection.
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It is now believed that the two Pompeii victims, known as "The Two Maidens", might hold actually been young male lgbtq+ lovers.
So far, one of the bodies has been confirmed as male.
At first, the positioning of the two bodies were idea to be a mother and daughter in embrace.
However, this has now been disregarded after study has proved at least one of them was a "young adult" male.
Whilst the male's exact age in unknown, his potential homosexual lover is mind to have been aged between 14-19.
Professor Stefano Vanacore, who led a research team examining the pair back in 2017, said: "When this discovery was made, that they were not two young girls, some scholars suggested there could have been an emotional connection between the pair.
"But we are
Pompeii DNA analysis explained: Volcano victims 'The Two Maidens' were gay lovers?
DNA study has brought the ancient city of Pompeii, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, back to news. The researchers, with the facilitate of modern science, acquire discovered that popular assumptions exist about the tragedy.
The DNA results revealed that a 2000-year-old mummy, earlier assumed to belong to a woman, belonged to a man. Now, many argue that the bodies belonged to a queer couple and not two sisters or a mother and child.
City of Pompeii
When Mount Vesuvius erupted 2,000 years ago in 79 AD, the city of Pompeii was obliterated, killing its residents. Pompeii was covered in ash before being buried by several meters of lava. The world didn't know about Pompeii until it was rediscovered in the 1700s. Among the ruins, researchers also found human remains -- citizens of the lost city who didn't survive the volcanic eruption.
Dozens of bodies were start preserved from the soot and ash that covered the streets, buildings and people. The soft tissue of the bodies had decayed over the millennia, but their outlines remained intact. Although the bodies got buried in mud and ash and eventuall
An ongoing project to CT scan the plaster casts of the victims of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. has revealed that the cast of two embracing figures known as The Two Maidens are in reality men. The skeletal remains of the couple and the cavity in the volcanic rock left by the rot of their smooth tissues were discovered in the garden of the Home of the Cryptoporticus in a 1914 excavation overseen by Pompeii’s director of works Vittorio Spinazzola. The remains of eight people were found in that little peristyle garden, two of them in 1913, the rest between July 2nd and 21st of 1914.
All eight were found in the fine ash layer that followed the pumice plummet, encased by the pyroclastic flow that covered the town. Plaster casts were made of three of the eight (the right conditions for creating the casts are rare; out of more than 1,100 human remains found at Pompeii, casts own been made of only 86 of them), with particular attention paid to the more complex problem of the couple. The Two Maidens were erroneously assumed to be women because of their posture and the shapeliness of their legs. Here is how Spinazzola described the detect in the yearly report on the excavation (t