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On loan from the Naples National Archeological Museum and the Archeological Park of Pompeii, the artifacts include statues of ...

New DNA evidence from Pompeii’s body casts reveals that traditional assumptions about residents’ relationships and origins were often incorrect, showing instead a diverse population with roots in the ...

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

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

Excavations first began to unearth the forgotten city in 1748, but it wasn’t until 1863 that archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli ...

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

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

A new genetic analysis of 14 bodies recovered from Pompeii is casting doubt on some of the initial interpretations of their identities before the cataclysmic volcanic eruption. A team of ...

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