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

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

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 ...

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

Fourteen miles southeast of modern Naples lies Pompeii, a city frozen in time by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius ...

Vesuvius eruption two millennia ago, challenge the traditional... When a volcanic eruption buried the Roman city of Pompeii ...

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

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

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

Plaster casts made from the impressions of their bodies in the ash show the horror ... were slaves living in harsh conditions. Pompeii with Vesuvius in the background – the site is huge, making ...

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

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