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The Pompeii cast Project features in the 2018 documentary Pompeii's Final Hours: New Evidence. Watch Estelle and the team take Bettany Hughes through all the latest evidence revealed by the project on Voltage TV
About the Documentary For centuries, a third of the Roman city of Pompeii was left untouched. This meant that hundreds of shops, homes, streets and bodies laid unseen beneath ash and rubble for 2000 years – exactly as they were on the day of the eruption. For the very first time, this untouched part of the ancient town underwent new archaeological digs – Pompeii’s Final Hours: New Evidence captured these ground-breaking works. Over three episodes, Bettany Hughes, Raksha Dave and John Sergeant bring this ancient city back to life. |
In 2018, SBS featured the documentary Pompeii: Life Before Death (Re-titled from Pompeii: New Secrets revealed with Mary Beard).
About the Documentary Pompeii is nestled in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, whose massive eruption in 79 AD simultaneously destroyed and preserved this bustling Roman town. It is one of the world’s most iconic sites, a city frozen in time that has revealed more about everyday Roman life than anywhere else. Rewatch online, or contact SBS OnDemand for further resources: https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1188981315869/pompeii-life-before-death |
In 2016, the Great Pompeii Project was the subject of a new documentary presented by Mary Beard, aired on the BBC and produced with Lion Television. In this documentary you can watch the team at work on the casts and their insights into the results from the 2015 season. You can find out more about the documentary on the BBC website
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This lecture was presented by Dr Estelle Lazer on 28 November 2017 at the University Sydney. Presented by Sydney Ideas.
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Inside the plaster: Scanning the Victims of PompeiiThe way Pompeii was covered by the eruption material ejected by Mt Vesuvius in 79 CE has made it possible to reveal the forms of organic remains preserved in the hardened ash. Pouring plaster of Paris into the voids created by decomposed soft tissue has created casts that were believed to be faithful renditions of those who died. In theory, the skeletons were embedded within the plaster casts of human victims and those of other mammals.
In 2015, Estelle Lazer and her team of experts commenced a project to CT scan and X-ray the casts of the Pompeian victims. The initial results of the CT scans and X-rays were surprising as they revealed that the actual production methods for the casts were quite different to the procedures that had been minimally documented in the 19th and 20th centuries. This year, the University of Sydney and the Superintendency of the Pompeii Archaeological Park signed a Memorandum of Agreement, which makes the two institutions partners in this important project. In June 2017, permission was granted for the first time to transport plaster casts of victims from the site to the nearby local hospital for scanning in a state-of-the-art CT scanner that provided much higher resolution than the machine employed in the 2015 study.The results of this season are providing us with new insights into the lives and deaths of these victims, as well as a better understanding of how the casts were achieved. |
This lecture was presented by Dr Estelle Lazer on 25 August 2016 at the University of Sydney. Co-presented by the Department of Classics and Ancient History and the Nicholson Museum.
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STOLEN LIVES: RETURNING IDENTITIES TO POMPEIAN VICTIMS OF THE AD 79 ERUPTIONSince they were first revealed in 1863, the casts from Pompeii which preserved the forms of the victims in their moment of death have generated huge interest. Stories of their supposed lives and deaths have proved to be persistent not just in novels and movies, but also in some academic treatments of the site.
As part of the Great Pompeii Project of 2015, the Superintendency organised the restoration of 86 of the 103 casts. Estelle Lazer and her team were given the opportunity to generate CT scans and x-ray analysis. For the first time, it was possible to carry out a scientific analysis a number of the casts and the remains embedded within them. |
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CT scans and X-ray analysis of the CastsEstelle Lazer, Roberto Canigliula, Dzung Vu, Alain Middleton, Stjin Luyck, Giovanni Babino, Kathryn Welch
in I CALCHI DI POMPEI. DA GIUSEPPE FIORELLI AD OGGIa cura di Massimo Osanna, Annalisa Capurso, Sara Matilde Masseroli
«L’ERMA» di BRETSCHNEIDER 2021
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INSIDE THE CASTS OF THE POMPEIAN VICTIMS: RESULTS FROM THE FIRST SEASON OF THE POMPEII CAST PROJECT IN 2015Estelle Lazer, Kathryn Welch, Dzung Vu, Manh Vu, Alain Middleton, Roberto Canigliula, Stijn Luyck, Giovanni Babino and Massimo Osanna
Papers of the British School at Rome Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2020 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068246220000264 |
Resurrecting PompeiiDr Estelle Lazer
2009, Routledge. Recognizing the important contribution of the human skeletal evidence to the archaeology of Pompeii and studying the reasons for the scientific neglect of the human remains, Resurrecting Pompeii provides detailed information about what the skeletal record can actually provide. Estelle Lazer demonstrates that the biological evidence does not support the detail of the stories that have been told to date, but it does yield tantalizing glimpses into the lives and deaths of the victims, providing students of archaeology and history with an essential resource in the study of this fascinating historical event. Read the AJA Review online: www.ajaonline.org/book-review/1056 |
The full volume is available online via researchgate.net
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The Economy of PompeiiMiko Flohr and Andrew Wilson (Eds)
2017, Oxford University Press Abstract This volume presents fourteen chapters by Roman archaeologists and historians, discussing approaches to the economic history of Pompeii and the role of the Pompeian evidence in debates about the Roman economy. Four themes are discussed... (continue reading at Oxford Scholarship online) Dr Estelle Lazer contributes chapter 5 of this volume "Skeletal Remains and the Health of the Population at Pompeii" Read the Bryn Mawr review online: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2017/2017-11-17.html |
Self Improvement Wednesday. Scanning human remains at Pompeii |
15 Sep 2021
Dr Estelle Lazer was interviewed about some of the recent developments in Pompeiian research on Self Improvement Wednesday with Richard Glover Listen to the full segment: https://www.abc.net.au/radio/sydney/programs/self-improvement-wednesday/siw-pompeii/13543716 |
Casting aspersions: Modern medical technology meets classical archaeology |
3 April 2019
Academy Travel Interview with Dr Estelle Lzer on her latest research in Pompeii. Read the full interview: https://academytravel.com.au/blog/interview-with-dr-estelle-lazer-on-her-latest-research-in-pompeii |
Future Tense |
Sunday 8 April 2018
Dr Estelle Lazer joined collegaues Dr Eric Poehler, Dr Gillian Shepherd and Dr Steven Ellis for this radion interview New insights about what happened at Pompeii on ABC Radio National. Listen online here. This interview also aired on: Radio Australia, CBC in Canada and RET Radio One Extra in Ireland |
Drive with Richard Glover |
Monday 27 November 2017
Dr Estelle Lazer joined Richard Glover on ABC Radio to discuss the Pompeii Cast Project ahead of her sold out Sydney Ideas lecture at the University of Sydney. Listen online here. Note: Estelle appears at 1 hour into the program. |
Can you dig it? with Rhianna Patrick |
Sunday 24 September 2017
Dr Estelle Lazer joined Dr Craig Barker for this September's Can You Dig It with Rhianna Patrick on ABC Radio to answer the question - What Really Happened in Pompeii? Listen online here. |
Conversations with Richard fidler |
Tuesday 26 November 2013
Dr Estelle Lazer Joined Richard Fidler on ABC radio to talk about her life as a forensic archaeologist and her research on the human remains of Pompeii. Listen online here. |
Blogging Pompeii |
Thursday 17 September 2009
Dr Estelle Lazer caught up with Blogging Pompeii to discuss her 2009 published book 'Resurrecting Pompeii'. Read the full article here. |
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