Pompeii escape: AI reconstructs the last gesture of an eruption victim
Lifting an earthenware mortar above your head to protect yourself from the rain of fire. It’s an instinctive, desperate, almost primordial gesture. It was one of the last acts performed by a man fleeing during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, now reconstructed thanks to new excavations in the Porta Stabia necropolis in Pompeii….
