Hygienic conditions in Pompeii’s early baths were poor, according to isotope analysis
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The city of Pompeii was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have now reconstructed the city’s water supply system based on carbonate deposits—particularly the transition from wells to an aqueduct.