Pompeii. Fossilised corpses found in the Garden of the Fugitives. This group of Pompeian citizens was trapped at the time of the eruption of Vesuvius (79 AD). These are casts obtained by pouring liquid plaster into the 'voids' left in the ground after the bodies disappeared. Campania, Italy.

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