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This suggests to me there there might be bones inside the plaster?

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There are! The mix they used destroyed a lot of it, but you can find online many x-rays that show where the bones really are.

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Well that answers my question about whether today’s archeologists would have done the same thing: nope.

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Preserving preserved history.

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Turns out, after all this time, sadam just wanted to butt chug plaster

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Well he fucked that up then.

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butt stuff

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Wow! I didn’t know they were casts. I thought we found the remains as presented.

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I’ve seen them. Also up the road at Herculaneum the dock buildings are full of skeletons all huddled together.

It’s really haunting.

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More or less so when you realize how many were slaves.

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