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9.30.2008

Fish Sauce Used to Date Pompeii Eruption

Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News
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Remains of rotten fish entrails have helped establish the precise dating of Pompeii's destruction, according to Italian researchers who have analyzed the town's last batch of garum, a pungent, fish-based seasoning.

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