By Leo Sands BBC News Image source, Parco Archeologico Pompei Image caption, Experts think the tortoise hadactually been looking for a comfy location to lay her egg when volcanic catastrophe struck in 79 AD When Mount Vesuvius appeared almost 2,000 years ago Pompeii’s ancient homeowners were frozen in location by ash. So too it turns out were the city’s plants and animals – consistingof a pregnant tortoise with her egg. Archaeologists discovered the reptile’s stays buried under ash and rock where it had laid undiscovered consideringthat 79AD. The tortoise was safeguarding underneath an already-destroyed structure when volcanic catastrophe struck. Archaeologists discovered the stays while excavating an location of the city that its ancient residents hadactually been restoring after an earlier earthquake ravaged Pompeii in 62AD. Around 2,000 years ago the 14cm (5.5in) tortoise had burrowed into a small underground burrow underneath a store damaged in that earlier quake. Experts state the truth it was discovered with an egg recommends it was eliminate
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