A new project is performing CAT scans on the plaster casts of the victims of Pompeii. Photo: Mario Caporta/AFP
A new project is performing CAT scans on the plaster casts of the victims of Pompeii. Photo: Mario Caporta/AFP
It’s so weird to be looking at casts with real dead people inside contorted exactly as they were at the moment of their death. Being in that room with them must have been eerie to say the least.
As far as the Pompeii victims are concerned.....to quote Homer (Simpson that is).
At least we'll die doing what we love: inhaling molten rock.
Meanwhile the city itself is crumbling.
Stop wasting euros on this and preserve the rest...You got good enough answers. No need to look further.
‘E’s not dead! ‘E’s jus’ restin’!
‘E’s pinin’ for the fjords!
If you want to know what society was like in Pompei just prior to it’s destruction, do a NOT SAFE FOR WORK web search on the words “Pompeii goat sex” without the quotes.
Pumice in the toothpaste?
There’s nothing like Plaster to bring out a nice, plump, rosy glow!
Saw an exhibit of Pompei artifacts including some of these eerie body casts. Amazing how they were preserved, but it was unnerving knowing that you were witnessing the moment of their death frozen in time.
***On Monday, more of the casts were placed on stretchers and taken to be scanned***
I know about the filling of the cavaties with plaster to get the cast of the victims, but years ago National Geographic also had an article on how so many bodies were found then were no longer pouring plaster in them, just breaking them open.
The photos showed dozens of skeletons when the cavities were broken open. Would not it have been easier to examine those bones without plaster on them?
“For sure, they ate better than we did,”
Yet the average life span was only 21 years! Yes, 21 years! Must have been that fermented fish sauce killing them off when it wasn’t volcanoes.
