Surprise in Pompeii, from the excavations a turtle with its egg. Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find

Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them Surprise in Pompeii, from the excavations a turtle with its egg Intact after 2 thousand years. History that fascinates the world. A new wonder emerges from the excavations of Pompeii: a 2,000-year-old turtle and its egg. It is a small turtle of land, incredibly preserved with its never laid egg, the last surprise of Pompeii, which ANSA documents in preview. The remains of a land tortoise, a tortoise, with its fragile egg kept in its carapace, found in a shop in via dell’Abbondanza; testimony of the vast ecosystem of Pompeii, composed of natural and not only anthropogenic traces and a precious archaeological evidence of the last phase of the city’s life, after a violent earthquake in 62 AD. and before the fateful eruption of 79 AD. The unusual discovery took place, as part of an excavation and research campaign on the Stabian baths, conducted by the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Naples L’Orientale, with the University of Oxford in collaboration with the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, aimed at investigating the urban development of the residential district before the establishment of the baths. In particular, this year the remains of a sumptuous domus with refined mosaics and wall paintings, dating back to the first century B.C. and razed to the ground after the earthquake that devastated Pompeii and large parts of Campania in 62 AD. Subsequently, the area was used for the expansion of the spa complex at the intersection of via dell’Abbondanza and via Stabiana