Some of the victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D. in Pompeii were cast in plaster to preserve the scene. New DNA ...

The body was first found to be of a male, likely around 30 years of age. At first, archaeologists believed that he had ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens ... relied on genetic material preserved for nearly two millennia. After Mount Vesuvius erupted ...

Plaster casts of calcified Pompeii residents have long been used by archaeologists to tell the stories of the last, desperate ...

Last week, with the use of DNA, researchers revealed that long-held assumptions missed the mark, providing tantalizing ...

In 79 AD, Italy’s Mount Vesuvius exploded, raining ash and volcanic debris down on the city of Pompeii and its tens of thousands of residents. In mere minutes, the giant cloud of ash and gases killed ...

New DNA analysis challenges existing hypotheses about the identities and relationships of victims found in Pompeii after the ...

In mere minutes, the giant cloud of ash and gases killed an estimated 2,000 people, many of whom were unearthed more than a thousand years later. Their decomposed bodies were preserved by the ash, and ...

Some of the people who were buried in Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted may have been misidentified, according to fresh evidence. Fourteen casts of victims discovered in the remains of the Roman ...

A study published Thursday retold some famous stories about Pompeii citizens before they died from the eruption of Mount ...

Some of the victims buried in Pompeii following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius have been wrongly identified, new evidence suggests. Researchers used DNA testing on 14 casts of victims found in the ...