how those encased in the Pompeii volcano were encased so perfectly?

Question

how those encased in the Pompeii volcano were encased so perfectly?

In: Biology

Answer 1

I am quite confident that the “bodies” you see in pompeii are castings made of gypsum plaster from the voids that were created by the human bodies that were originally there.

Basically, the ashes buried the dead people, the body decomposed over almost 2000 years while the ashes were hardened and stayed put. This created human-shaped holes that people filled in with plaster to create a ‘model’ of the dead person.