Pompeii plaster casts.

2 bodies preserved in plaster at Pompeii. The flesh, of course, was gone long ago, but the bones are still there. The shape was preserved by the ash and pumice that covered the city.

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[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.

[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

[SistaWeotch]

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

[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

[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?

[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.

[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.

[JBME]

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

[abcedy123456]

@TheCrazybullies  ?????

[hersirensong]

Breaks my heart. :(

[mckfrr]

That's terrible what a horrible way to die.