Pompeii’s plaster cast human figures aren't who they were assumed to be, genetic tests have revealed, highlighting the way ...

Italian archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli began making plaster casts in the 1860s—more than a century after the excavation of Pompeii began. His method produced chalk replicas of 104 victims whose ...

This is a cast of the famous bronze statuette of a dancing faun or satyr from the Tuscan impluvium of the House of the Faun at Pompeii (Pompeii VI ... This collection of plaster casts owned by Cornell ...

When an ancient Roman resident of the coastal city Herculaneum was struck down by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, what ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in stone for centuries. Observers see stories in the plaster casts later made ...

The Pompeii exhibition is accompanied by an animated ... In 2023, Germany's Staatliche Ethnographische Sammlungen Sachsen returned eight plaster casts of Māori people to Aotearoa New Zealand ...

An exhibition on Pompeii and Santorini that was shown in ... This means that the plaster casts in this exhibition reflect the technical traditions of restorers and interpreters across different ...

Very few animals have been successfully cast at Pompeii, and the horse joins a wild boar and a dog (pictured) in getting the same plaster treatment as human victims. This dog was chained to a post in ...