Comment on August 24th 79 AD is the believed date that the City of Pompeii was covered in meters of volcanic ash, after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Thanks to Giuseppe Fiorelli we can see some of their last…

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snooggums@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I honestly thought the ash filled in the gaps when the bodies burned away and solidified kind of like fossilization but way faster. This is the first I’ve heard about plaster casts.

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