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 ...

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 ...

What landscape architects need to know. The ancient site has a new master plan by Studio Bellesi Giuntoli. By Monica Shenouda ...

Going forward, more work is needed to fully understand Pompeii’s past ... were able to reconstruct their forms using plaster casts of the cavities they left behind. More than 100 casts have ...

The passage of time has done nothing to diminish Pompeii's capacity to shock. With ossified bodies and filthy paintings ...

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 ...

Plaster casts of calcified Pompeii residents have long been used by archaeologists to tell the stories of the last, desperate moments of ancient Romans before they were buried and preserved in ...

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 ...