Drawing on multiple studies demonstrating that it is possible to retrieve DNA from both human and animal remains in Pompeii, ...

Scientists studying the remains of people who died in the devastating Mount Vesuvius eruption that buried the ancient city of ...

Analysis of ancient DNA from the ashen casts of Pompeii victims changes presumed relationships between them, and reveals the ...

Victims thought to be female were male and not related to one another, showing "the story that was long spun around these individuals" was wrong, researchers said.

A recent DNA study has upended long-held theories about the people who died in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, revealing ...

Ancient DNA taken from the Pompeii victims of Mount Vesuvius' eruption nearly 2,000 years ago reveals that some people's ...

"Imaginary Books," an upcoming show at New York's Grolier Club takes a counterfactual tour around the literary universe.