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Why are the bodies of the dead in Pompeii like stone?

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These are not actual bodies, but plaster casts of bodies. When the pyroclastic flows (that is a mixture of ash rock, and boiling hot gases) smothered Pompeii to a depth of several metres, the victims, human and animal were buried in those flows. read more

When the pyroclastic flows (that is a mixture of ash rock, and boiling hot gases) smothered Pompeii to a depth of several metres, the victims, human and animal were buried in those flows. As time went on, the bodies decayed until there was nothing left but a void. read more

They didn't, when the ash instantly killed the people they died in the exact positions they were in. Then the ash hardened and the organic material of their bodies decomposed it left a holow "bubble" in the ash in the shape of their body. When the archeologists found pompeii they started finding these "bubbles" and figured out what they were. read more

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Plaster casts of victims' bodies at Pompeii in Italy.
Source: slate.com

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