He excavated it during 1860-1875
The man who was the most successful Archaeologist to excavate at Pompeii was named Giuseppe Fiorelli.
It's not a case of how much he uncovered, it's more the techniques that he used that made him the best Archaeologist to direct the digs in Pompeii.
Giuseppe Fiorelli became an archaeologist by being rich or loving and smart at history.
Giuseppe Fiorelli faced challenges such as the delicate preservation of artifacts due to the volcanic ash covering the city and limited funding for excavations. He introduced innovative techniques like plaster casting to preserve human remains and accurately document the site. Fiorelli was committed to the conservation of Pompeii, emphasizing the importance of preserving the city's artifacts for future generations.
A man by the name of Giuseppe Fiorelli directed some of Pompeii's excavations from 1863-1875 whilst doing this he introduced an entirely new system for the project; instead of unearthing streets first, so to be able to excavate houses from the ground floor up. He imposed a system of uncovering houses from the top down. This is a better way of preserving things. He also developed the use of plaster casts to be able to recreate forms of plants and human bodies. Using his new methods he was able to unearth and preserve a lot of things that could not have been achieved otherwise.
Giuseppe Fiorelli was an archaeologist, who made major contributions to the study of Pompeii. He trained archaeologists in the layer by layer method of unearthing, thus preserving artifacts. He initiated a method of uncovering the houses of Pompeii from the top down to the street, minimizing any loss or further damage to the buildings. He is most famous for developing the plaster casts of the people, animals and plants that were covered in ash thereby giving us the lifelike features of the victims.
They had no reason to, and it was believed the town was destroyed by the gods.
A man named Giuseppe Fiorelli found that cavities in the compact ash were actually in space in which a body had once been but had since decayed, leaving the bones laid at the bottom. He found that if he pour plaster into these spaces that when it hardened the plaster would reveal an extremely detailed and precise cast of the person that had once died there.
A man named Giuseppe Fiorelli found that cavities in the compact ash were actually in space in which a body had once been but had since decayed, leaving the bones laid at the bottom. He found that if he pour plaster into these spaces that when it hardened the plaster would reveal an extremely detailed and precise cast of the person that had once died there.
Tiberio Fiorelli was born in 1608.
Tiberio Fiorelli died in 1694.
Aldo Fiorelli died in 1983.