The "Ring Lady" of Herculaneum
a Roman woman around 45 years of age, who died near the ancient waterfront of the Roman town during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD
She was found surrounded by her gold jewellery and still wearing two gold rings on her left hand.
Herculaneum was an ancient city in Campania, Italy, located in the modern-day comune of Ercolano. Herculaneum, like the nearby city of Pompeii, Herculaneum is famous as one of the few ancient cities to be preserved more or less intact as the ash that blanketed the town also protected it against looting and the elements. Even though it isn't as well-known as Pompeii now, it was the first buried Vesuvian city to be found, and for a long time, it was the only one.
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