When archeologists made plasters of Pompei’s vicitms, how did they know where they were?

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We know the flesh and bodies were long gone and left hollows were they once were. Archeologist filled them with plasters to create a shape. When they were digging, if there was nothing left but a shape underground, how did they know there was a body there before? If they kept digging, wouldn’t they break the hollow?

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