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Haunting Casts Preserving Pompeii Victims’ Final Moments 2,000 Years Ago Go on Display in a Solemn New Exhibition

Since 1863, archaeologists have made more than 100 plaster casts, which show how victims died after Mount Vesuvius erupted in ...

A new exhibit shows plaster casts of Pompeii victims frozen at the time of death

More than 20 plaster casts of victims who died in the catastrophic volcano eruption in Pompeii went on display for the first ...
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Walking Pompeii’s ancient streets, from theaters to the plaster casts of 79 AD

A guided walk through Pompeii reveals theaters, thermopolia, bakeries, and the haunting plaster casts—daily life stilled under Vesuvius.
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Destroy the copy - plaster cast collections in the 19th-20th centuries demolition, defacement, disposal in Europe and beyond edited by Annetta Alexandridis and Lorenz Winkler ...

Introduction / Annetta Alexandridis and Lorenz Winkler-Horaček -- I. (Post)colonial contexts -- Introduction / Annetta Alexandridis -- The (mis)performance of cast collections / Henrik Holm -- The ...