About 2,000 years ago, the Italian city of Pompeii was buried beneath volcanic ash after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
This image is not a statue, but a plaster cast that captures the final position of a four-year-old innocent child.
How Was It Made?
- The intense heat and ash from the volcanic eruption buried people alive.
- Over time, their bodies decomposed, but hollow spaces (voids) remained within the hardened ash.
- Archaeologists carefully filled these empty spaces with liquid plaster.
- Once the plaster hardened, it revealed the victims’ final moments exactly as they were at the time of death.
In his final seconds, this child appears to have been reaching out toward his mother — before the ash froze him in time forever.
These casts remain silent witnesses to the horrifying destruction of Pompeii, preserving human emotion and tragedy across two millennia.
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