Caught in the trap in an eternal embrace, they came to be called ‘Two Maidens’ since their discovery - but now a CT-scan and DNA tests on the body revealed that the two characters are actually men.
While the true nature of their relationship can never really be known, the analysis revealed for certain that they were not family members, and researchers say that the possibility that they were in love "can not be rejected."
Caught in the trap in an eternal embrace, they came to be called ‘Two Maidens’ since their discovery - but now a CT-scan and DNA tests on the body revealed that the two characters are actually men.
WHO WERE THE 'TWO MAIDENS'?
Two figures were discovered in the volcanic wreckage of Pompeii, positioned such that one’s head rests on the other’s chest.Thought to be women, they've come to be known as 'The Two Maidens.'
But recent archaeological efforts have revealed the two figures are actually men.
With a CAT scan and DNA tests, including analyses of their bones and teeth, researcher determined that the men were about 18 and 20 years of age, though the latter may have been older.
While the nature of their relationship can never truly be verified, the researchers said ‘the fact that they were lovers is a hypothesis that cannot be dismissed.’
But, one thing is known for certain – the two men were not related.
And since 2015, researchers have worked to learn more about them and other 86 victims of the eruption of Vesuvius who were cast in plaster for conservation.
The city has been removed during the devastating natural disaster in 79 a.d., and wethink that thousands of people have lost their lives.
In the effort more recent researchers conducted intensive tests on victims of the bones and teeth - and this has led to a discovery that overthrew their previous assumption on its head.
'The Two Maidens.'" were men.
"Pompeii never ceases to amaze," said Massimo Osanna, Supe rintendent of the archaeological site of Pompeii.
"We always imagined that it was an embrace between women.
"But a CT-scan and DNA revealed that they are men.
In the effort more recent researchers conducted intensive tests on victims of the bones and teeth - and this has led to a discovery that overthrew their previous assumption on its head.
Their bones and teeth showed the men were around 18 to 20 years, although the latter may have been older.
Their bodies are placed such that a human head rests on the chest of the other.
Although there is a lot of speculation about their relationship, which can never really be verified,
Osanna said "the fact that they were in love is a hypothesis that cannot be dismissed."
But one thing is known for certain - ‘Two Maidens’ revealed today to be men, were not related to each other.
"When the discovery was made, that they were not two young girls, some scholars suggest it could have been an emotional connection between the couple," said Professor Stefano Vanacore, who led the
research team of Pompeii, the Telegraph reports.
"But it is assumptions that can never be verified.
" What is certain, is that the two parties were not parents, or brothers, or a father and a son. "
THE DESTRUCTION OF POMPEII, AS SEEN FROM A DISTANCE
An administrator and a poet by the name of Pliny young saw the disaster unfold from a distance.
Letters describing what he saw found in the 16th century.
His writing suggests that the eruption took the inhabitants of Pompeii unawares.
He has said that a column of smoke "as an umbrella pine" went to volcano and the cities around him in black as night.
People ran for their lives with torches, shouting and some wept as rain of ash and pumice stones fell for several hours.
While the eruption lasted for about 24 hours, the tides of pyroclastic first started at midnight, causing the column of the volcano to collapse.
avalanche of hot ash, rock and gas rushed down on the side of the volcano at 124 mph (199kph), burying victims and the remains of daily life.
Hundreds of refugees sheltering under the arcades vaulted beachfront at Herculaneum, clutching their jewelry and money, was killed instantly.
As people fled from Pompeii or hid in their houses, their bodies were covered withblankets of expansion.
While Pliny does not estimate how many people died, the event was supposed to be 'outstanding' and the number of deaths is supposed to more than 10,000
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