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[–] nukul4r@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They could have placed the funnel anywhere else in the illustration, but they chose not to.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 1 year ago

The only thing I question is why the artist who drew the illustration of the molds being filled choose to put the funnel in the body cavity's asshole.

[–] swab148@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why is the funnel in his arse. Why was that artistic choice made.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

If it fits?

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What happened to the bones? How did they know there was a body there?

[–] Lupus108@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In the article someone linked below I found this section :

Archaeologists preserved the newly discovered remains using a variation of a technique developed by Italian archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli in 1863. The process involves pouring liquid chalk into cavities left by decomposing bodies; this plaster fills gaps in preserved bones and teeth, creating a cast of the bodies as they looked at the moment of death.

So you find a cavity with bones and other remains in there and use it as a mold I suppose? They probably were excavating the city from the ash cover and when they found something that could be remains of a human they stopped digging and used said techniques to preserve the remains.

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This has to be added to the meme collage of Sadam and digging for diamonds etc.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] SlapnutsGT@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

When I first started reading this I was thinking it would end up being some Pompeii didn’t happen denial craziness ha

[–] OgdenTO@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] wick@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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