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The famous Pompeii bodies are casts of empty space
The victims decayed, leaving hollow cavities in hardened ash. In 1863 archaeologists poured plaster into those voids, recreating the exact poses of people who died 1,800 years earlier.
Archaeology
Farmers digging a well found an army
In 1974 Chinese farmers hit pottery and uncovered 8,000 life-size terracotta warriors, each with a different face, guarding a 2,200-year-old tomb.