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MEMORIALIZED BY CASTS OF CAVITIES THEIR BODIES LEFT IN THE ASHFALL Pompeii and the 2,000 unlucky souls who had stayed behind the eruption were buried, leaving their bodies encased in volcanic debris. As the bodies decomposed, they left hollow spaces. Centuries later, archaeologists detected these spaces and gently filled them with plaster, creating molds that chillingly capture their anguished last moments. Rick Steves’ Europe: Reflecting on ruin at Vesuvius and Pompeii | The Epoch Times