Almost 2,000 years after the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, new discoveries are reshaping our understanding of the event’s full impact. Recently, scientists unearthed two skeletons in the ruins of Pompeii suggesting earthquakes may have significantly compounded the deadly effects of the volcanic eruption. A team of researchers from the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) and Pompeii Archaeological Park found two male skeletons, approximately 50 years old, inside a collapsed building. The skeletons’ positions and injuries suggest they were crushed by falling…