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Plaster Person of Pompeii Frozen in Time

The Ruins of Pompeii are filled with wondrously strange sights, but nothing as bizarre as human skeletons, like this one, covered in ash and mud in 79 AD and brought back to life, so to speak, when 19th Century excavators poured plaster of Paris into their cavities.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 10.2015
Date Uploaded: 11.2017
Photo Location: Pompeii, Italy
Camera: Canon PowerShot SD550
Copyright: © Barry Kushner