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New skeleton find could reveal more about Vesuvius eruption
5 years agoA picture taken on June 28, 2016 in the Mediterranean coastal Israeli city of Ashkelon shows a skeleton discovered at the excavation site of the first Philistine cemetery ever found. With an excavation in southern Israel unearthing a Philistine cemetery for the first time, bones of the biblical giant Goliath's people can finally shed new light on mysteries of their culture. The cemetery's discovery marks the "crowning achievement" of some three decades of excavations in the area, the expedition's organisers say. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP
A skeleton discovered in the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum, destroyed along with nearby Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius' eruption nearly 2,000 years ago, could offer fresh insights into the disaster
