Garden of the Fugitives, Pompeii, Italy — Thirteen plaster casts of bodies cluster in a vineyard near the city's southeastern walls — a family and their slaves who fled too late and were overwhelmed by the pyroclastic surge. Their contorted postures and covered faces preserve the last desperate moments of Pompeii's final day.
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