Pompeii_7654
by admin on Monday, September 12th, 2011 | No Comments
Some cool man body waxing images:
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Image by KitLKat
The bodies are actually ‘plastercasts’. Bodies and wooden structures such as furniture and doors were covered in deep very compacted ash. As the bodies or wood decomposed they left behind a hollow cavity. During excavations it was realised that filling these cavities with plaster of paris would make a mold of what had originally been there. A similar process is used in lost wax molding
