Archaeologists have unearthed the petrified remains of a harnessed horse and saddle in the stable of an ancient villa in a Pompeii suburb.
Pompeii archaeological park head Massimo Osanna told Italian news agency ANSA that the villa belonged to a high-ranking military officer, perhaps a general, during ancient Roman times.
Osanna said the remains of two or three other horses were discovered in all, and it looked as though they may have been harnessed and prepared to flee the eruption.
He said suffocating volcanic ash or boiling vapours killed the horses and that the villa should eventually be open for public visits.
The area was previously excavated, during the early 1900s, but later re-buried. The volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius destroyed flourishing Pompeii, near present-day Naples, in 79 A.D.
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