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Italy Pompeii Victims Casts
FILE -People visit the archaeological site of Pompeii, near Naples, southern Italy,Tuesday, May 26, 2020.
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A new permanent exhibition has opened in Pompeii that shows plaster casts of people killed in the Mount Vesuvius eruption, frozen in their final moments. On Thursday, curators put 22 casts on public display for the first time. Experts call them “imprints of pain.” They were created by pouring plaster into spaces left in hardened ash. Director Gabriel Zuchtriegel says the goal is dignity and understanding. Archaeologist Silvia Martina Bertesago says modern tests reveal age, sex, disease, and diet.
