One of the Pompei habitants

One of the Pompei habitants, originally uploaded by joellekueng.

Although most of the habitants had fled Pompei, some of them stayed behind and got cought in the erruption of the Vesuvio (burning ashes). It happened so fast that their bodies got cought in the thick layer of ashes, and when the excavation works began, they found holes with bones, and had the good idea of filling them with concrete before doing anything else. And that's how we now can see this "statues" of the last postures of these people before dying.