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[–] 218 points 2 years ago (13 children)

They could have placed the funnel anywhere else in the illustration, but they chose not to.

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    Is there a reason left side specifically has to be on the surface?

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It's probably the best place for funnel insertion at the end of the day. A hole left behind there is appropriate, you don't want to mess with any details you might get from the face, and it's way funnier this way.

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    Wow! I didn’t know they were casts. I thought we found the remains as presented.

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  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 54 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Alternate caption:

    Most people dont know that boofing was actually invented by archaeologists researching Pompeii. Justice Kavanaugh was unavailable for comment.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    It'll always be plugging to me.

    Also, why does the article only talk about alcohol? Seems like a huge oversight, given how easy it is to rectally absorb other stuff besides liquid.

    Like ecstasy.

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    When I first started reading this I was thinking it would end up being some Pompeii didn’t happen denial craziness ha

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    DIY fossilization

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (17 children)

    What happened to the bones? How did they know there was a body there?

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago*

    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.

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    This has to be added to the meme collage of Sadam and digging for diamonds etc.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Why is the funnel in his arse. Why was that artistic choice made.

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

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    Preserving preserved history.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remains-two-men-one-rich-and-one-enslaved-found-pompeii-180976383/

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Was it a matter of some good timing that these casts were able to be made? That is, with enough time, wouldn't the voids/cavities themselves likely collapse with the gradual shifting of the soil?

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