Recent excavations in the Regio V district at Pompeii have uncovered something remarkable, an event that will see history books re-written.
Vesuvius was thought to have erupted in August, 79 AD. How then to explain the piece of graffiti seen in the video below, a date written in charcoal for October 17 of the same year? Given the fragile nature of something written in charcoal, it wouldn’t have lasted long, so it has been proposed that the actual eruption was one week later, the 24th of October, and that the ash and debris that filled and covered everything have kept the writing intact over the centuries!