This photo went around the world. Probably, there is no popular Internet resource where it would not be published. The Woman with Gold Rings (Lady of the Rings) is a victim of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. But take a closer look at the photo and you will understand that something is clearly wrong here.

Someone even asked me: “What could the custom of wearing two rings on one finger mean?”

In fact, the rings are not at all on the finger, but on the metacarpal bone – i.e. palm bones! It is clearly impossible to put on rings in this way during life.

So how did they end up there?

Everything is much simpler, there is no mystery here. It was enough to look for early photographs of “Lady of the Rings”.

As you can see, everything is in order here – the rings are on the fingers, and on different ones. It looks like for a spectacular photo, at the request of a close-minded journalist, they put rings on the bone of the palm.

In addition, our Lady of the Rings is the owner of two wonderful gold bracelets with snake heads and a pair of gold earrings (most likely, with large pearls fixed on pins, unfortunately, the heat destroyed them).

The ring on the left is decorated with the image of a bird on a carnelian, on the right there is a ring with jasper.

The carnelian ring is closer.

Gorgeous snake bracelets:

One of them is closer to get a better look:

Also, the Lady of the Rings has beautiful white teeth, journalists immediately suggested that a beautiful young female aristocrat had died. After all, we all know that with dentistry in ancient times it was much worse, and with age, with teeth in ancient times, most had serious problems.

Found “Lady of the Rings” as well as “Legionnaire of Herculaneum” (see my previous post) on the shore near the boat docks, where more than 300 remains of the bodies of the inhabitants of the city have been preserved.