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[-] OgdenTO@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago

This suggests to me there there might be bones inside the plaster?

[-] optissima@lemmy.ml 22 points 6 months ago

There are! The mix they used destroyed a lot of it, but you can find online many x-rays that show where the bones really are.

[-] wick@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Well that answers my question about whether today's archeologists would have done the same thing: nope.

this post was submitted on 20 May 2024
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