4Bodies were cast by researchers

Plenty of bodies were discovered underneath all of the ash and pumice left behind by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

Many of these had left holes within the ash layers after disintegrating, as noticed by Italian architect Giuseppe Fiorelli in 1863. He came up with the idea of injecting plaster into these gaps, thus creating plaster casts of the bodies of the people buried at Pompeii.