Very few animals have been successfully cast at Pompeii, and the horse joins a wild boar and a dog (pictured) in getting the same plaster treatment as human victims. This dog was chained to a post in ...

(dog barking in distance ... Using an X-ray, Llorenç and his team examine the bones hidden in Pompeii's plaster casts. The scan of one individual reveals striation on the knee, indicating ...

People have long been fascinated by the haunting plaster casts of the bodies of people who died in Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE. Archaeologists have presented certain popular ...

When Vesuvius erupted on August 24 and 25, A.D. 79, some 2,600 inhabitants perished in Pompeii alone (a plaster cast of a child found under a staircase). Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita ...

Excavations first began to unearth the forgotten city in 1748, but it wasn’t until 1863 that archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli developed a method to make plaster casts of some of the Pompeii victims.

Plaster casts of Pompeii’s victims preserve moments of human connection as the A.D. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried the city in ash. There’s a family of four — including a mother ...

A new genetic analysis of 14 bodies recovered from Pompeii is casting doubt on some ... human skeletal remains mixed with the plaster casts that were used to preserve the bodies.

When a volcanic eruption buried the Roman city of Pompeii nearly 2,000 years ago ... The bodies, later immortalized by plaster casts, inspired narratives about who the victims were: for example ...

Editor’s note: this article includes a photograph of a plaster cast of a person who died at Pompeii. Bits of human bone recovered from Pompeii, Italy, have yielded DNA from people who died ...

A bed and a partial bed frame were also located in the room. Plaster casts of a basket and rope Photo from the Pompeii Archaeological Park Plaster cast of a bed frame Photo from the Pompeii ...