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[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

What happened to the bones? How did they know there was a body there?

[-] Lupus108@feddit.de 48 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In the article someone linked below I found this section :

Archaeologists preserved the newly discovered remains using a variation of a technique developed by Italian archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli in 1863. The process involves pouring liquid chalk into cavities left by decomposing bodies; this plaster fills gaps in preserved bones and teeth, creating a cast of the bodies as they looked at the moment of death.

So you find a cavity with bones and other remains in there and use it as a mold I suppose? They probably were excavating the city from the ash cover and when they found something that could be remains of a human they stopped digging and used said techniques to preserve the remains.

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 31 points 1 month ago

The bones are inside the cast. They found the cavities during excavation.

[-] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

They ordered a boneless pizza

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