Ancient footprints made by people and animals fleeing the eruption of Mount Vesuvius have been discovered near Pompeii. But these footprints are thousands of years older than the famous eruption in A.D. 79, revealing that people in the Naples area have dealt with volcanic catastrophes for millennia.
The newfound 4,000-year-old prints, as well as other archaeological finds, were uncovered during pipeline construction in an area southeast of Pompeii, according to a translated statement from the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Provinces of Salerno and Avellino.
