00:00But the most haunting discovery came in 1863, from a man named Giuseppe Fiorelli.
00:06His diggers kept finding hollow spaces in the ash, shaped like people.
00:10When the bodies rotted away, they left perfect molds and hardened ash.
00:15Fiorelli had an idea, he poured plaster into the molds and when it set he peeled away the
00:20ash and there they were.
00:22The dead returned, more than a thousand casts have been made.
00:25Thirteen bodies in the garden of the fugitives, caught mid-flight, a family running for the
00:31city gate, a mother holding her child, a dog twisted in agony, still chained to its posts.
00:37These are not statues, they are the last mo-
