Pompeii Bodies

Earlier in the week I learned that two new Pompeii bodies were discovered. What had happened is about two thousand years ago, Vesuvius volcano erupted and buried the city of Pompeii in hot ash. The bodies of the people that died there left an imprint in the ash that hardend, their flesh rotted away leaving just the bones and the imprint. 

Some bright person recently discovered that you could pour concrete or plaster into the hollow space around the bones and get a cast of the imprint left by the dead person so you could see what they looked like at the moment they died. You can see the pain in the face of a person that died nearly two thousand years ago. The casts are very detailed, you can see what clothing they were wearing and the expression on their face and things that were near them. 

One of the two men that were found was dressed in rags and had flattened disk vertebrae in their spine so they think he was a slave, the other man was dressed in expensive clothing and was older then the young slave, they think he was the slave owner. Both men looked like they were dying in a sudden and painful way. 

Every buried person that was over 50 years old would have been around at the time of Jesus and it is possible that they met Jesus if they went to ancient Roman occupied Israel and Judah. 

To me the Pompeii body casts and preserved city are amazing.