By pouring plaster of Paris into the voids left in the ash by decomposed flesh, archaeologists have enabled us to see the last agonized gestures of the hapless victims — “the young woman lying with her head on her arm; a man, his mouth covered by a handkerchief that could not impede the inhalation of dust and poison gases; the attendants of the Forum Baths, fallen in unseemly poses of the jerks and spasms of asphyxia;... a mother hugging her small daughter in a last pitiful and useless embrace. ” — Archeo. No Safety in Herculaneum
अपनी छोटी बेटी को एक आख़री दयनीय और निर्थक आलिंगन में अपने गले से लगानेवाली एक माँ । ” — आर्कियो, अंग्रेज़ी ।