🏺👶 plaster cast of a child’s

 🏺👶An archaeologist holds a plaster cast of a child’s body that died as a result of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE in Pompeii. The child was sitting on his mother’s lap when tragedy struck. It is believed that he was about four years old.😢

Most of the inhabitants of Pompeii that died were asphyxiated by the poison gas from the eruption. Their bodies were subsequently entirely buried by the volcanic ashes that rained from the sky.

Around 1870, Giuseppe Fiorelli introduced a method that poured liquid plaster in the cavities left by the bodies that had decomposed inside the volcanic material.

This allowed the making of casts of the victims of the eruption. Once the plaster had solidified, the surrounding soil was removed. In Pompeii and Herculaneum, using this technique, the casts of numerous human bodies, animals and objects were made.

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