Pompeii: The Last Day uses archaeological evidence, including the writings of one survivor, to unravel the mystery of those final hours. Lavish special effects reconstruct each stage of Vesuvius's cataclysmic eruption and its impact on soldiers, slaves, families, and lovers as they struggle with the unfolding tragedy.

Of the 2000 bodies excavated, one of the saddest casts called "The Two Maidens" consists of two people embracing as the ash swept over them, and Milo and Cassia's love story in Pompeii, while a work of fiction, was created out of that level of immortalized devotion.

Pompeii: Secrets Of The Dead | Disney+

However, new research strongly suggests these were actually two men embracing. Scientific tests of the teeth and skeletal remains have revealed that one was an 18-year-old man and the second was probably a male aged 20 years or older. "We always imagined that it was an embrace between women.

The two figures embraced for one last time as molten rock and ash rained down, holding each other as they perished – together. Nearly 2,000 years after the pair died in each other's arms as Mount Vesuvius erupted and wiped out the Roman city of Pompeii, it has been discovered they were both men.

Pompeii is a 2014 epic romantic historical disaster film produced and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. An international co-production between the United States, Germany and Canada, it is inspired by and based on the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. that destroyed Pompeii, a city of the Roman Empire.

Explores Pompeii, a city cloaked in mystery which, over the course of history, has influenced culture and art, from Neoclassicism to Contemporary Art, through images and words by the great a... Read all.

Two figures were discovered in the volcanic wreckage of Pompeii, positioned such that one's head rests on the other's chest. Thought to be women, they've come to be known as 'The Two Maidens. ' But recent archaeological efforts have revealed the two figures are actually men.

No, there were not petrified stone statues of two people kissing outside of Pompeii. This is likely a detail made up for the movie adaptation. However, there have been many archaeological discoveries made in Pompeii, including a stone statue of two people embracing.

The city of Pompeii is famous because it was destroyed in 79 CE when a nearby volcano, Mount Vesuvius, erupted, covering it in at least 19 feet (6 metres) of ash and other volcanic debris. The city's quick burial preserved it for centuries before its ruins were discovered in the late 16th century.

That's because between 15,000 and 20,000 people lived in Pompeii and Herculaneum, and the majority of them survived Vesuvius' catastrophic eruption. One of the survivors, a man named Cornelius Fuscus later died in what the Romans called Asia (what is now Romania) on a military campaign.

Although the movie is fictional, it humanizes the disaster in a way that historical accounts don't, Yeomans said. "When you let yourself watch the movie, you make the human connection that these were real people in a real tragedy."