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cousteau
I was in Pompeii a few weeks ago. It was nice, but man, the townsfolk weren't talkative at all.
thrashingcows
hushpuppyextraordinaire
Is that the brain bottom right?
DefinitelyaHumanNotanAlien
I was very confused because that looks nothing like the Brain of 'Pinky and' fame.😄
PaperinoVB
Maybe, yes; or simply hair. BTW: https://mondointasca.it/2015/09/30/tac-multistrato-vittime-pompei-79-d-c/
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cousteau
So basically, these aren't mummified corpses, but rather plaster casts showing the hole that was left by the victims after decomposing… possibly also containing bones and other stuff that didn't burn.
MySushi
Also, many people did escape the city or tried to ferry off the peninsula anyway heeding the earlier warning signs. It was not a total disaster, at least according to many historical accounts by survivors. The people who remained either did not believe they were in any immediate danger or could not bring themselves to leave the familiarity of home, livestock and possession they grew up around. More than eighty percent made it out while time permitted in early stages, to settle elsewhere in Rome.
Johnsky
Yep. It's not immediately clear when you visit Pompeii, but the street you enter the grounds from used to be the cities water access.
FiftyShadesOfBroccoli
The Tenth Doctor and Donna also saved a few.
WholesomeAsFuck
Chill. It’s a joke
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Icanhearwhatyouresayingandtheanswerisno
Which I did
Animatronio
I visited this exhibit when it was in Seattle. Seeing the casts was very surreal - these are the remains (kind of) of very real people, men women and children, many of whom died in undignified positions, all of them afraid and suffering - and there's school kids running around screaming and having a great time, not quite aware of the gravity of what was in the room.
cousteau
To clarify for those who don't know, these are actually plaster casts that were made by pouring plaster into the molds that those people left inside the solidified ash after dying and decomposing. So, as you said, not literal human remains (unless there were leftover bones and the like that got mixed with the plaster in the process), but the positions are very real - a 3D photography frozen in time of the last thing these people did before dying.
MrsHowVeryDareYou
I mean, that’s true of school kids in pretty much any situation. That’s how they retain a lot of their joy though - not fully understanding how terrible and fucked up the world is yet.
Animatronio
Yeah, I didn't hold it against them or anything. Just kids being kids. I just found it added an air of... weirdness.
MrsHowVeryDareYou
That’s fair, I can imagine