Pompeii plaster casts.

[RomeWalks]

Fascinating extract from your tour.  We have just put up a easy to understand film on how to travel from Rome to Pompeii, should anyone be interested. It is the latest video on the Rome Walks Channel.

[JBME]

how do you know some artists didn't create these during the past 100 years..?

[SistaWeotch]

@JBME How do you know anything outside your area of expertise? (For that matter, how do you know you're not a brain in a jar or plugged into the Matrix?) In any case, read up on Giuseppe Fiorelli. Look him up on Wikipedia.

[hersirensong]

Breaks my heart. :(

[MichaelJacksonFan000]

So that's not an actual body, but just a an outline of it made by the ash/volcanic rocks?

[SistaWeotch]

@MichaelJacksonFan000 There is not a body in terms of flesh, but there are bones. The space around the bones was left after the ash solidified around the body and the flesh decomposed.

[mckfrr]

That's terrible what a horrible way to die.

[chrono4203]

Poor people. Its so fascinating and sad at the same time.

[sfgman51]

i bet that sucked so much balls

[Polaris431]

I still can't figure out how they even discovered that there was a cavity. Imagine digging through layers of ash. How do you know you've hit a cavity of a human?

[SistaWeotch]

@Polaris431 You don't know until you've made a cast. As with JBME's comment, suggest you look up Pompeii and Giuseppe Fiorelli. I seem to recall they found cavities around humans, animals, wooden instruments, etc. Basically, anything that would easily decompose did.

[TheCrazybullies]

so would this have affected flights like the recent one did ,,cause that is probably why they didnt run away if all the airports were closed

[elvensungoddess]

@TheCrazybullies you do realize this happened many many years before any kind of warning could be issued and no airplanes were in existance

[abcedy123456]

@TheCrazybullies ?????

[SistaWeotch]

@TheCrazybullies It's far more likely air traffic controllers were the ones to blame here.

[SistaWeotch]

Yes, according to the guides, the bones are still there in most cases. You can see this poor fellow's skull, for example.

[animesis]

i thought i heard somewhere the skeletons were still present?

[mousegal1]

I feel a little bit of pity for those people. =(

[1981z28camaro]

this is a little morbid

[HurtWolf]

I think they should be buried.

[frank6306]

These are the casts made from the voids left after the volcanic rock hardened around the bodies.... In fact most of the people had the flesh burned off their bodies within seconds & their brains exploded inside the skull with such intense heat

[iamaGod357]

@frank6306 no

[Wuffa]

@HurtWolf The plaster casts are just that...casts of holes in the volcanic ash. There is no body.....so why bother burying the casts

[bellelives99]

we were just studying this in my integrated reading class... there was this book about it called "Pompeii a nightmare at midday" or something like that and there was a picture of a bunch of people frozen in there living positions and it scared the heck out of me

[netosiso]

WOW. FRON THE MÉXICO

[StoryboardSquad]

Imagine: You're a mouse enjoying a nibble in ancient Pompeii when the walls explode around you and you are swamped in an instant by superheated gas and ash.

But ahh, now you have been found and can live for eternity as a plaster cast in a Pompeii museum...

watch?v=Y3RlcP8yUPo

[HELLENHASGAS]

Amazing plaster casts. Those poor people how they died like that.

[tiastarbreeze]

its not plaster around them its volcanic rock im doing a project on pompeii right now and it said the bodies of the ctiy of pompeii were incased with volcanic rock frozen in time

[beckybooba13]

yes they were encased in volcanic rock but they formed a type of bubble around the body. now we can make a plaster cast from this "bubble" and it recreates features and body position of the people that died that is left imprinted on the cooled volcanic rock. cool huh?

[tiastarbreeze]

oooh okay now i see anyway ya it is cool but i wouldnt want it to happen to me tho

[guitaristonur]

realy good

[bossund]

Thanks, very helpful.

I am doing a project on these casts for school!