Plaster casts

During excavation, empty holes were discovered in the rock where the ash had covered organic material, and then the material eventually disintegrated. They poured plaster into these holes and were able to make casts of people that died from the toxic fumes while about their everyday chores.

Walking Italy's Amalfi Coast - Day 3 - Mt. Vesuvius and Its Victim, Pompeii

June 24th 2007
This morning, we climbed to the top of Mt. Vesuvius, and looked into the crater that was created in 79 AD, when the volcano blew its top and buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in hot ash and mud. Afterwards, we had a short wine tasting of Lacrima Christi wine made with grapes grown in Vesuvius's volcanic soil. I got a delicious bottle of white wine to take home with me. We stopped at ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

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