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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There are! The mix they used destroyed a lot of it, but you can find online many x-rays that show where the bones really are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Well that answers my question about whether today's archeologists would have done the same thing: nope.