Around the world, museums are grappling with the question of what to do with human remains. This includes lifelike copies of those who may have died traumatically.

Archaeologists have so far found around 1,000 victims of the eruption in Pompeii and have made plaster casts of 104 of them. Sign up to the Front Page newsletter for free: Your essential guide to ...

When Vesuvius erupted on August 24 and 25, A.D. 79, some 2,600 inhabitants perished in Pompeii alone (a plaster cast of a child found under a staircase). Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita ...

Going forward, more work is needed to fully understand Pompeii’s past ... were able to reconstruct their forms using plaster casts of the cavities they left behind. More than 100 casts have ...

Among the most moving sights is the Garden of the Fugitives, which displays plaster casts of some of the victims in their final moments of life. "It adds an extra dimension to Pompeii," observes ...

Scientists filled these gaps with plaster, creating a very accurate ... a mother and two children. Unlike the casts from Pompeii which show flesh as well, the shape of the family’s corpses ...

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 ...