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Researchers say even the jewelry on their bodies and the folds of their clothing were represented by the statues. “The two life-size figures are sculpted separately on two different tuff ashlars.
Archeological Park of Pompeii Press Office Via AP, HO The bodies belonged to a woman, who was clutching jewelry and coins, and a young man in his teens or early 20s, the BBC reported.
They can also “see” the people themselves: plaster casts of Pompeii citizens’ burned bodies, supposedly located right where they died after Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in 79 C.E.
FILE – Jewelry found in the ruins of a house in Pompeii are displayed, backdropped by the casts of two adults and two children who died together in the house in Pompeii, at the exhibition ...
New DNA evidence from the bodies of Pompeii victims has found many of our assumptions about who they really were have been false, researchers have said. The ancient city of Pompeii in Italy was ...
As people fled Pompeii or hid in their homes, their bodies were covered by blankets of the surge. While Pliny did not estimate how many people died, the event was said to be 'exceptional' and the ...
FILE - Jewelry found in the ruins of a house in Pompeii are displayed, backdropped by the casts of two adults and two children who died together in the house in Pompeii, at the exhibition, "Life ...