In 79, Mount Vesuvius, by the Bay of Naples in Italy, erupted. Covered and destroyed during the volanic eruption was the Roman town of Pompeii. In this area at the site of Pompeii are kept finds from excavations. In the middle left is a body cast - when excavators in the 1860s came across seemingly hollow areas, often with bones these were soon recognized as areas that had once contained the body of person killed in the eruption (often from inhaling the gases and suffocation). The director of excavations, Giuseppe Fiorelli, devised the method of pouring plaster into the hollow area and th
In 79, Mount Vesuvius, by the Bay of Naples in Italy, erupted. Covered and destroyed during the volcanic eruption was the Roman town of Pompeii. In this area at the site of Pompeii are kept finds from excavations. In the middle left is a body cast - when excavators in the 1860s came across seemingly hollow areas, often with bones these were soon recognized as areas that had once contained the body of person killed in the eruption (often from inhaling the gases and suffocation). The director of excavations, Giuseppe Fiorelli, devised the method of pouring plaster into the hollow area and thereby making a cast of the person who had fallen there.
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