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They could have placed the funnel anywhere else in the illustration, but they chose not to.
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The only thing I question is why the artist who drew the illustration of the molds being filled choose to put the funnel in the body cavity’s asshole.
This has to be added to the meme collage of Sadam and digging for diamonds etc.
When I first started reading this I was thinking it would end up being some Pompeii didn’t happen denial craziness ha
Wow! I didn’t know they were casts. I thought we found the remains as presented.
What happened to the bones? How did they know there was a body there?
In the article someone linked below I found this section :
Archaeologists preserved the newly discovered remains using a variation of a technique developed by Italian archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli in 1863. The process involves pouring liquid chalk into cavities left by decomposing bodies; this plaster fills gaps in preserved bones and teeth, creating a cast of the bodies as they looked at the moment of death.
So you find a cavity with bones and other remains in there and use it as a mold I suppose? They probably were excavating the city from the ash cover and when they found something that could be remains of a human they stopped digging and used said techniques to preserve the remains.
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.
