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They found dark fragments resembling obsidian inside his skull following the eruption, which also obliterated the thriving Roman cities of Pompeii ... Federico II in Italy, one of the leaders ...

making Pompeii an extraordinary testimony to an aspect of life in classical Mediterranean life that is largely unknown,” Italy’s culture minister, Alessandro Giuli, said in the statement.