Plaster Cast of Pompeii Victim, Pompeii, Italy — When archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli developed the technique of pouring plaster into voids left by decomposed bodies in 1863, he revealed the final moments of Pompeii's citizens in haunting detail. This cast shows a person covering their face against the suffocating ash cloud that killed them.
© Kleuske, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
