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  • Uploaded by: Photo of petedrob petedrob
    In album: Italy 2007
    In Webshots channel: family
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  • Date uploaded: Wed May 02 01:46:04 PDT 2007

Guiseppe Fiorelli took charge of the excavations in 1860. During early excavations of the site, occasional voids in the ash layer had been found that contained human remains. It was Fiorelli who realised these were spaces left by the decomposed bodies and so devised the technique of injecting plaster into them to perfectly recreate the forms of Vesuvius's victims.

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