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How Were the Pompeii Plaster Casts Made? - The Plaster Casts of Pompeii | Sleepy Facts About History
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The haunting figures of Pompeii, curled in apparent agony with their mouths open, are among the most recognized images in archaeology. Most people assume these are the petrified remains of ancient Romans, turned to stone by the intense heat of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. This episode explores the actual history of these figures, revealing that they are not bodies at all, but plaster casts created in the 1860s by the Italian archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli.
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