I saw this powerful image of a baby from Pompeii carried like a real child which reminded me of 2 interesting facts about the site:
first, that many residents did manage to flee the city before it was buried in ash.
second, the process used to recover the bodies today is ingenious: The presence of a body is found during digging when a void in the ash is revealed. Archaeologists pour plaster in the void then proceed to chip away the ash to reveal the plaster. The plaster fills the void left behind when the flesh decayed yet the skeletal bones remain encased in the plaster.
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Photo description: Stefano Vanacore, director of the laboratory at Pompeii Archaeological Site, carrying a petrified child victim of Vesuvius. In this lab restorers worked on the carefully preserved plaster casts of 86 of the Romans trapped in Pompeii in 79 AD
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Is that child's hand wrapped around it's back?
Stephanie99
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Mar 13, 2019
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probably clenched in front of it's chest which is indicative of the clenching of cooked muscles.
I've travelled there and saw a few bodies. Very eerie.
SleeplessInTexas
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Mar 13, 2019
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EMC2:
Wow to think you actually were there!! I can only imagine how quiet the mind becomes at the foot of such a reality. We are always reminded that MAMA Nature has some power.
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