Around the world, museums are grappling with the question of what to do with human remains. This includes lifelike copies of those who may have died traumatically.

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 ...

Pompeii plaster casts and their original locations in Pompeii Plaster casts of individuals from whom analyzable ancient DNA was recovered and original map of Pompeii. Scale in meters shown for the ...

Italian archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli began making plaster casts in the 1860s—more than a century after the excavation of Pompeii began. His method produced chalk replicas of 104 victims whose ...

Among the most moving sights is the Garden of the Fugitives, which displays plaster casts of some of the victims in their final moments of life. "It adds an extra dimension to Pompeii," observes ...

Scientists filled these gaps with plaster, creating a very accurate ... a mother and two children. Unlike the casts from Pompeii which show flesh as well, the shape of the family’s corpses ...

The Pompeii exhibition is accompanied by an animated ... In 2023, Germany's Staatliche Ethnographische Sammlungen Sachsen returned eight plaster casts of Māori people to Aotearoa New Zealand ...