plaster casts
When Mount Veusivus erupted in 79AD casts of those who died were left behind. Images show what they had to go through in there last moments before they passed away and disintegrated. There last day was 24th of august 79 AD, at noon Mt Vesuvius came to life and spewed ash for 18 hours straight. Ash choked those around and in the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, it fell upon the countryside it blocked doors and collapsed roofs. Pliny the younger reported this in his two letters. These plaster casts holds significance because they show us history about what happened that day. This also showed us who lived where, there social class and what there final moments looked like. Among the ruins there was jewellery found that the women were wearing or carrying, a slave was found she still had her bracelet that her master had given her. Around about 165 acres was excavated and only 1,510 bodies have been discovered out of around 2,000 that was thought to of died in the city. The majority of the city had fled when they saw the first signs of the eruption. There was a plaster cast of a heavily pregnant woman found in her house surrounded by her family because she was too ill to leave the city.
Daily life went on how it usually does no one knew that Verusivus was a volcano even Pliny the Elder did not and he was a historian so when it did erupt until it was too lte for the people of Pompeii were used to the shaking and trembling earthquakes that continuously shook the ground. There daily life came to a end.
Daily life went on how it usually does no one knew that Verusivus was a volcano even Pliny the Elder did not and he was a historian so when it did erupt until it was too lte for the people of Pompeii were used to the shaking and trembling earthquakes that continuously shook the ground. There daily life came to a end.