[JimRed]

Covered with ash like Pompeii statues? Wouldn’t 1300 degrees reduce the bodies to ash anyway?

[Vaquero]

Ash wouldn’t hold 1300F for long. As opposed to molten lava which would.

[BBell]

Yes, but this is a humid heat. It's a different kind of heat. It creates a different kind of ash.sarc.

[pepsi_junkie]

Covered with ash like Pompeii statues? Wouldn’t 1300 degrees reduce the bodies to ash anyway?

The Pomepeii statues aren't actual people turned into stone or covered in hard rock. The people, probably many already dead from the poisonous gases emitted from the volcano, were covered with a massive piles of hot volcanic ash that solidified into stone. Their bodies decayed leaving their bones and artifacts in a body-shaped cavity in the rock. The archaeologists figured this out and poured in plaster to get the haunting statues of people in their death 2000 years ago.

[fruser1]

“bodies to ash”

No because the ash also smothers the oxygen so there is only a limited amount available to burn the body to ash.

They are cooked in place, just like pompeii.

[fruser1]

p.s. the pompeii “bodies” are actually concrete statues.

The original bodies ultimately decayed leaving a hole. During excavation, they pulled the bones out and filled the hole with concrete to create the statue.