Ash Figure of Pompeii.

• Anita
  March 8th, 2007 at 11:26 pm

  Wow, that’s incredible (and sad). It’s almost like (s)he’s trying to crawl out.

• Eric
  March 9th, 2007 at 12:12 am

  Probably was trying to crawl out. When archaeologists first excavated Pompeii they kept finding holes filled with bones. Someone thought to try filling the hole with plaster and discovered that the volcanic ash had frozen the position of people as they died. There was an exhibit of these casts that toured various museums. The saddest I remember was a mother trying to cover her baby.

• brandon
  March 9th, 2007 at 4:50 am

  like crawl out of that tiny glass box, huh anita? that thing must get SO stuffy in the summer.

• Lea
  March 9th, 2007 at 10:56 am

  its more likely a cement casting of a person-shaped hole left in pompeii

• Denita TwoDragons
  March 9th, 2007 at 12:08 pm

  Can someone please take the garbage out? It’s attracting trolls on this site…

  –TwoDragons

• Alex
  March 9th, 2007 at 12:17 pm

  My first troll… I’m a proud papa!

• ted
  March 9th, 2007 at 1:27 pm

  Lea’s right. This is a plaster cast of a hole left by a body that was buried in ash by the volcano. The hole was created once the body decomposed.
  The person was not trying to crawl. That’s simply the position he was in when he died.
  Many people died with their arms protecting their faces - they were asphyxiating, after all.

• yayo
  March 9th, 2007 at 2:24 pm

  So… It’s garbage… ^g^ Haha. I say this so little times that I hope you understand that it’s a hard phrase to say: ¡Me cago en Dios!

• ted
  March 9th, 2007 at 3:55 pm

  Urm… if you say so.

  Not sure what you’re saying there, yayo. Sorry to hear you’re so angry about something. Hope you get over it soon.

• Steph
  March 10th, 2007 at 10:58 am

  It’s really creepy to see the ones that are still at Pompeii. There’s a group of (casts of) people huddled behind a wall that was between them and the volcano. When we went, the creepiness was escalated by the fact that it was deserted and rainy, and thunder rumbled in the distance. Very sad, but really interesting stuff.

• Elizabeth
  April 8th, 2008 at 1:25 pm

  this pic is amazing. it is sooo hard to believe that pompeii was completely coved by smoke and ash.

• Jennifer
  April 8th, 2008 at 1:27 pm

  No. Not uh! there is no way that people were covered by this stuff. I mean there is a picture of people in cases. How do we know you just didn’t make them yourself? THINK ABOUT THAT!

• Rachel Avila
  April 8th, 2008 at 1:30 pm

  OMG THIS IS SO CRAZY. I AM SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO STUPID NOT TO KNOW THIS. WHAT THE HELL I AM STUPID ANYWAY. I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAG TWO PLUS TWO EQUALS. AND IT TOOK ME THREE HOURS JUST TO WRITE THIS.

• EMILY LOWE
  April 8th, 2008 at 1:35 pm

  hay everyone wats up.i love every boy in this school!!
  my name is emily lowe. the school that i go to is wareham middle school. except i love naomi ryan alot more.

• ashlee
  May 28th, 2008 at 2:48 pm

  Omg this is so sad *sniff,sniff*

  DONT CRAWL OUT LIL BUDDY,
  sincerely,
  Ashlee.

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