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London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. This family died together in an alcove under the stairs of a house. One child on its mother's lap claws at the wall at the mother and father fall backwards, killed by extreme heat.

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London, UK. Tuesday 26th March 2013. Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum. Bringing together over 250 objects, both recent discoveries and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. This family died together in an alcove under the stairs of a house. One child on its mother's lap claws at the wall at the mother and father fall backwards, killed by extreme heat.