US EditionA New Exhibit Shows Plaster Casts of Pompeii Victims Frozen at the Tim
The exhibition displays over 20 plaster casts capturing victims' final moments and other artifacts, preserving evidence from the 79 AD Mount Vesuvius eruption for research and public viewing.
- On Thursday, Pompeii opened a permanent exhibition in the porticoes of the Palestra opposite the Amphitheatre displaying more than 20 plaster casts of victims from the 79 AD eruption.
- Using a method of pouring plaster into voids left by decomposed bodies, the park's research team continues to recreate victims, a technique invented in 1863 by Giuseppe Fiorelli.
- Among the finds, the exhibition displays more than 20 plaster casts of victims who died in the 79 AD eruption, alongside buried materials like plants and food.
- For visitors and researchers, archaeologist Silvia Martina Bertesago noted the casts' emotional impact and their support for ongoing research through analysis of age, sex, and disease evidence.
- The 79 AD eruption left an estimated 2,000 dead in the city and up to 16,000 regionally, with ash and pyroclastic flows preserving voids for the plaster casts.
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A new exhibition in the ancient city of Pompeii reveals the common details of the final moments of its inhabitants before being buried by the eruption of Mount Vesúvio in 79 B.C. The exhibition, which opened on this Thursday (11), gathers 22 molds of victims preserved by volcanic sands and debris, offering visitors a dramatic portrait of the last hours of one of the most devastating natural disasters of the Ancientity. The bodies were rebuilt fr…
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A new exhibit shows plaster casts of Pompeii victims frozen at the time of death
A new permanent exhibition has opened in Pompeii that shows plaster casts of people killed in the Mount Vesuvius eruption, frozen in their final moments.
Tragic Pompeii victims seen embracing in final moments before volcanic eruption in heartbreaking new exhibit
The first permanent exhibition of Pompeii’s historic casts is now on display in Italy, paying homage to those who were brutally killed after being engulfed by an inundation of volcanic ash.
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