plaster casts

Plaster cast containing a four-year-old boy from Pompeii being put in the CAT machine. Italy

2 October, 2015 - 14:43 Alicia McDermott

New Scans of Ancient Pompeii Victims Reveal Great Teeth and Good Health

CT scanners are being used on the plaster casts of the Mount Vesuvius victims from Pompeii . Preliminary results show that, in general, they had great teeth and were in remarkably good health before...

Some of the victims of Pompeii were sitting, some lying when the superhot gas cloud enveloped them.

25 May, 2015 - 00:48 Mark Miller

Frozen in Time: Casts of Pompeii Reveal Last Moments of Volcano Victims

The plaster casts of 86 agonized victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD near Pompeii will go on exhibit May 26, 2015, in National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy. People of Pompeii, a...