The cameras weren’t rolling when Giuseppe Fiorelli first poured plaster into the hollow spaces left by decomposed bodies in 1863. No photographers documented the moment workers’ shovels first struck the preserved streets of Pompeii in 1748. But as excavations continued through the 19th and early 20th centuries, photographers began capturing these extraordinary moments of discovery — the instant when artifacts, buildings, and human forms emerged …
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