Mount Vesuvius may have suffocated, not vaporized, some victims
People who took refuge in stone boathouses died a slower death when the volcano erupted
![Mount Vesuvius boathouse](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/012220_eg_vesuvius_feat.jpg?fit=1028%2C579&ssl=1)
Some people fleeing the famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 hid in these stone boathouses.
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