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Through the ingenuity of archaeologists, the original casts were created by injecting plaster into ... comprising 155 casts of human faces and nine casts of other human body parts.

We stood surrounded by cascading piles of partial casts of friends’ torsos ... At the time, the idea of a universal body had become passé. “There is no ‘human’ body anymore,” the ...

Pompeii body casts. Credit: Archeological Park of Pompeii The authors ... is that the remains themselves had been moved into different positions and the plaster casts were likely “creatively restored” ...

Excavations first began to unearth the forgotten city in 1748, but it wasn’t until 1863 that archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli developed a method to make plaster casts of some of the Pompeii victims.

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 ...

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 ...

Plaster casts of Pompeii’s victims preserve moments of human connection as the A.D. 79 ... it left behind bones and body-shaped hollows in the ash. Since 1863, more than 100 casts of Pompeii ...