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How can we ethically display the dead in museums? What about resin casts of those who died violently in Pompeii?
The bodies were presented in their wrapped state ... The museum's current exhibition, Pompeii: Inside a Lost City, displays ...
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What can an exhibition about an ancient city frozen in time tell us about museums and the meaning of the present?
While the physical bodies from which they were created are ... been a feature of the history and the creative re-imagining of Pompeii since they were first made in the 1860s.
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‘Exceptional’ Pompeii frescos of Greek booze god & mystery rituals from Jesus’s time unearthed from ancient volcanic ash
Since the mid 1800s, the voids left by the bodies have been filled with plaster to recreate their final moments. Pompeii remains a well-preserved archaeological site, attracting tourists from ...