Incredibly Realistic Wax Models That Were Made from Real Remains

 

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What Little That Was Left of Him

The Necklace of Human Fingers

American Indian. Necklace of Human Fingers / 1887-1888

The Remains of Vesuvius

One of the morbidly fascinating results of the 79 A.D. eruption of Vesuvius is the large number of holes found in the volcanic deposits around Pompeii that represented corpses of people and animals that were buried by the hot ash. The ash lithified before the corpses decayed so that a good mold of the deceased remained. Early in the excavation it was discovered that filling these molds with plaster produced remarkable casts of the victims of the eruption.

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