A new study— published in Current Biology by a team of researchers at Harvard University and the Archaeological Park of ...
Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii shows that people found holding one another beneath the volcanic ash weren’t related in ...
Shocking DNA evidence finds that the identities of bodies at Pompeii are completely different than what scientists have ...
A study published Thursday retold some famous stories about Pompeii citizens before they died from the eruption of Mount ...
In mere minutes, the giant cloud of ash and gases killed an estimated 2,000 people, many of whom were unearthed more than a ...
A new study has shattered historians' long-held assumptions about some of the people who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption in ...
Genetic analysis of five individuals preserved as plaster casts in the ruins of Pompeii contradicts established beliefs about ...
New DNA evidence from Pompeii’s body casts reveals that traditional assumptions about residents’ relationships and origins were often incorrect, showing instead a diverse population with roots in the ...
FILE - Jewelry found in the ruins of a house in Pompeii are displayed, backdropped by the casts of two adults and two ...
Drawing on multiple studies demonstrating that it is possible to retrieve DNA from both human and animal remains in Pompeii, they managed to extract genetic information from some of those plaster ...