Giuseppe Fiorelli was the Dearing of the Pompeii excavation from 1863 to 1875. He introduced the use of plaster casts to recreate the forms of the human bodies that had been covered by volcanic ash in which a hole had been left (shaped in the form of the plant or person) after the body had rotted. These casts show people in the position they were in at the moment of death. None were Ctrl-Alt-Del-ing at the time the lava flow reached Pompeii.