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 ...
Plaster casts of calcified Pompeii residents have long been used by archaeologists to tell the stories of the last, desperate ...
A new study— published in Current Biology by a team of researchers at Harvard University and the Archaeological Park of ...
Last week, with the use of DNA, researchers revealed that long-held assumptions missed the mark, providing tantalizing ...
New DNA analysis challenges existing hypotheses about the identities and relationships of victims found in Pompeii after the ...
A handful of people in Pompeii that were killed by the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 are not who experts thought they were, according to a team of researchers that recently ...
An ancient-DNA analysis of victims in Pompeii who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption reveals some unusual relations between the people who died together. When you purchase through links on our site ...
While the Greeks, Etruscans and Samnites attempted to conquer it, Pompeii became a Roman colony, the study authors noted. But Mount Vesuvius’ eruption wiped it and other nearby Roman settlements ...
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