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minus-squareOgdenTO [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·1 month agoThis suggests to me there there might be bones inside the plaster?
minus-squareoptissima@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·1 month agoThere 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.
minus-squarewick@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoWell that answers my question about whether today’s archeologists would have done the same thing: nope.
This suggests to me there there might be bones inside the plaster?
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.
Well that answers my question about whether today’s archeologists would have done the same thing: nope.