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New Plaster Casts of Pompeii Victims Reveal Agony and Terror

At least 20 new plaster casts of Pompeii victims, including a three-year-old and 'the embraced,' are being exhibited for the first time, vividly capturing their agony, pain, and terror at the moment of death during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.

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