title: Revealing secrets of a lost city. An archaeologist examines skeletal remains from the ruins of Pompeii.
abstract: Escape from the AD 79 volcano was possible for most inhabitants of the ancient city, even the elderly and infirm. Doctor Estelle Lazer challenges established views about those who perished.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy and Histology, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW. Estelle.lazer@antiquity.su.edu.au
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lazer
mesh_terms: D001847:Bone Diseases / Q000266:history* / Q000473:pathology; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000293:injuries; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D010164:Paleopathology