life-size human figure kneeling as if in prayer. The piece also has a fascinating history, it turns out—it was made using a plaster cast of Michael Jackson’s body. Its artist, Nicole Miller ...

Editor’s note: this article includes a photograph of a plaster cast of a person who died at Pompeii. Bits of human bone recovered from Pompeii, Italy, have yielded DNA from people who died ...

In the 1870s, archaeologists made plaster casts of those who died when ... known to have devastating effects on the human body. All of the victims appeared to be lying on their back or prone ...

And they are not just human victims either ... plaster of Paris into that void, you got a plaster cast that was an exact replica of the body, but only a replica - more an "anti-body" than a ...

People have long been fascinated by the haunting plaster ... from both human and animal remains in Pompeii, they managed to extract genetic information from some of those plaster casts containing ...

What to do and what not to do while plastering? There are usually three significant signs of bone breakdown - pain, flatulence, and sagging. But whenever we get hurt, we may not feel the pain of a ...

Remains recovered from plaster casts of five people who died in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius have overturned some old assumptions about who they were. Plus, mitochondria can split into two ...