A new study has shattered historians' long-held assumptions about some of the people who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption in ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 ... preserved within the plaster casts at the Pompeii site has upended some long-held assumptions about bodies found together. A gold bracelet-wearing adult ...

New DNA evidence challenges the story of Pompeii's Two Maidens, once thought to be female relatives, scientists now call them ...

Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii shows that people found holding one another beneath the volcanic ash weren’t related in ...

Uranus, of course, is the seventh planet from the sun, 1.6 billion miles from Earth at their closest orbits. It was in the ...

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

People have long been fascinated by the haunting plaster casts of the bodies of people who died in Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE. Archaeologists have presented certain popular ...

A new study— published in Current Biology by a team of researchers at Harvard University and the Archaeological Park of ...

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 ...

I love exploring the world of ancient Rome, with its grand architecture, fascinating culture, and stories of larger-than-life ...

Vesuvius in 79 A.D., "Pompeii ... as "one of the best exhibitions traveling the world right now because it is so relatable." ...

FILE - Jewelry found in the ruins of a house in Pompeii are displayed, backdropped by the casts of two adults and two ...