Human Shadow Etched in Stone is an exhibition at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. It is thought to be the residue of a person who was sitting at the entrance of Hiroshima Branch of Sumitomo Bank when the atomic bomb was dropped over Hiroshima. A piece of stone containing the artifact was cut from the original location and moved to the museum.
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Human Shadow Etched in Stone is an exhibition at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. It is thought to be the residue of a person who was sitting at the entrance of Hiroshima Branch of Sumitomo Bank when the atomic bomb was dropped over Hiroshima. A piece of stone containing the artifact was cut from the original location and moved to the museum. In January 1971, the museum acquired the stone on which the human shadow had become indistinct due to weathering. The museum began research into preserving the shadow in April 1975, and in 1991, it reported that earnest investigation of preservation methods had commenced. At present, the stone is surrounded by glass.
The person depicted in the stone died immediately with the flash of the atomicBomb, or after falling down after the explosion. Some people believe that the shadow is the outline of a human vaporized immediately after the bombing. However, the possibility of human vaporization is not supported from a medical perspective. The ground surface temperature was thought to have ranged from 3,000 to 4,000 degrees Celsius just after the bomb. The current location of the Sumitomi Mitsui Banking Corporation, Hiroshima Branch is Kamiya-cho 1 Chome. The bank was built in 1928 and was designed in a general Romanesque architectural style.
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