A cast of two embracing figures
taken at Pompeii is that of two male lovers, Superintendent
Massimo Osanna said after new findings Thursday. "Pompeii never
ceases to amaze," he said. "We always imagined that it was an
embrace between women. But a CAT scan and DNA have revealed that
they are men," he said. The casts of shapes in the volcanic ash
that buried the ancient Roman city in 49 AD were made by
archaeologist Vittorio Spinazzola at the start of the 20th
century. This cast was made at the House of the Cryptoporticus.
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