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Pompei discovery for Swedish archeologists

http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=1291&date=20050417

From The Local, Swedish archeologists have discovered a Stone Age settlement covered in ash under the ruins of the ancient city of Pompei, indicating that the volcano Vesuvius engulfed the area in lava more than 3,500 years before the famous 79 AD eruption.

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