The factory is situated on the outskirts of Ercolano, near the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum, which, like Pompeii, was famously buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago.

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

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

A collection of close to 170 artifacts excavated from the famous ruins of the ancient Roman city that was destroyed by the ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in ...

were able to identify the sex and genetic ancestry of five individuals who died in the Mt. Vesuvius explosion in 79 CE. Their ...

A BOMBSHELL new discovery may have revealed the hidden identity of Pompeii’s two maidens – and their relationship would have ...

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 ...

Scientists have conducted a DNA analysis on the remains of the residents of Pompeii who perished during the eruption of Mount ...