Last week, with the use of DNA, researchers revealed that long-held assumptions missed the mark, providing tantalizing ...

Discover what life was like in Gladiator: this is what Pompeii, its streets and the Colosseum would have looked like before ...

Some of the victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D. in Pompeii were cast in plaster to preserve the scene. New DNA studies of those victims tell a different tale than what experts had ...

On August 24, 79 C.E., Mount Vesuvius erupted and encased the nearby ... Called the House of Phaedra—named after a fresco of the Athenian Queen found inside—the house contains similarly ...

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