They can also “see” the people themselves: plaster casts of Pompeii citizens’ burned bodies, supposedly located right where they died after Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79 C.E.

In 1860, Pompeii’s director of excavations Giuseppe Fiorelli developed a way to, in a sense, bring them back to life by creating plaster casts out of the voids left by the decay of organic ...

Pompeii’s plaster cast human figures aren't who they were assumed to be, genetic tests have revealed, highlighting the way ...

This is a cast of the famous bronze statuette of a dancing faun or satyr from the Tuscan impluvium of the House of the Faun at Pompeii (Pompeii VI ... This collection of plaster casts owned by Cornell ...

A team of scholars has now extracted DNA from skeletal remains in plaster casts of 14 individuals ... The researchers also confirmed that Pompeii’s population at the time of the eruption ...

Plaster casts of calcified Pompeii residents have long been used by archaeologists to tell the stories of the last, desperate moments of ancient Romans before they were buried and preserved in ...

bodies of the victims at Pompeii were preserved in a protective shell of ash before they eventually decayed – but the voids that these bodies left behind were filled with plaster casts to ...

A thick layer of volcanic mud preserved Pompeii as it was in 79 CE, offering a unique glimpse into life in the Roman Empire.

the body casts. The fallen ash eventually hardened, and as the bodies beneath decomposed, they left person-shaped holes behind. Archaeologists exploring Pompeii discovered that by injecting plaster ...

Pompeii: Inside a Lost City at the National Museum of Australia depicts life in the flourishing Roman city of Pompeii before it was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.