The Avatars at Herculaneum by FractalFactor

Photography • Photo Manipulation • posted on Oct 16, 2015

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Description

Casts of some of the bones found at Herculaneum when in 79 A.D. Mt. Vesuvius exploded and hailed fire, brimstone,and ash in a pyroclastic flow,temperature about 500 C., down the mountain's side.

Comments (8)

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CavalierLady

12:38PM | Fri, 16 October 2015

Fascinating! Herculaneum has always been near the top of my Bucket List, so this is very cool to see! Lucky you!

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KarenJ

12:58PM | Fri, 16 October 2015

Wow, very haunting image~!

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blankfrancine

1:02PM | Fri, 16 October 2015

Great archaeological photography.They were probably killed instantly by the heat.

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giulband

1:03PM | Fri, 16 October 2015

I was in Ercolano just a month ago. It is more interesting to visit than Pompei, a very interesting experience. If yiou are in this place I can suggest to visit also the Villa of Oplontia a marvelous imperial residence of Poppea destroyed during the same disgrace !!!!!!

FractalFactor

2:00PM | Fri, 16 October 2015

Definitely more interesting than Pompeii. Easier streets to navigate for us old folk as well. No, we were there for a week's vacation

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