Dr Sophie Hay: The coil of the rope, the weave of the basket, the texture of the timbers, the blades of a saw and pickaxe… Surrounded by the ghostly white casts of tools & objects, just as the last occupants left them in a room in the servile quarters of villa Civita Giuliana in AD 79 #Pompeii 🏺

The coil of the rope, the weave of the basket, the texture of the timbers, the blades of a saw and pickaxe… Surrounded by the ghostly white casts of tools & objects, just as the last occupants left them in a room in the servile quarters of villa Civita Giuliana in AD 79 #Pompeii 🏺

Hang on. Those are plaster casts, like the body moulds? Oh my goodness.

Correct! Filling the voids of decomposed organic matter.

Incredible

A ‘Pick-Mattock’ as its called in US. 2,103 year later.

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