Jewelry found in the ruins of a house in Pompeii are displayed ... material preserved for nearly two millennia. After Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed the Roman city in 79 A.D., bodies ...

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Alissa Mittnik from the Max Planck Institute in Germany studied new DNA evidence from the Pompeii victims, disproving past ...

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

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

A volcanic eruption destroyed the Roman city of Pompeii in 79 AD, but an avalanche of tourists has caused officials to ...

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 ...

Over 1,000 people have been found in the ashes of Mount Vesuvius' eruption across the site with DNA testing ongoing since 2015. DNA testing of some inhabitants of the buried city of Pompeii has ...

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 ...

In a stunning revelation, DNA analysis has uncovered fresh insights into the victims of Pompeii. The catastrophic eruption in 79AD blanketed the city in a thick layer of ash, preserving the final ...

In 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius experienced one of its most significant eruptions, burying the Roman city of Pompeii and its inhabitants under a thick layer of small stones and ash known as lapilli. Many of ...