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4,000-year-old footprints near Pompeii show people fleeing Mount Vesuvius eruption thousands of years before the famous one

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4,000-year-old footprints made by people and animals fleeing the eruption of Mount Vesuvius have been discovered near Pompeii .

The footprints were made during the Early Bronze Age in Italy ( 2300 to 1700 B.C.) They were preserved in material ejected from the volcano's pyroclastic deposits.

The tracks were found during pipeline construction in an area southeast of Pompeii, Italy .