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

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

After Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed the Roman city in 79 A.D., bodies buried in mud and ash eventually decomposed, leaving spaces where they used to be. Casts were created from the voids in the ...

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

The results of new DNA tests just dropped this week, and they prove that we don't know as much about Pompeii as we once ...

Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii shows that people found holding one another beneath the volcanic ash weren’t related in ...

An ancient-DNA analysis of victims in Pompeii who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption reveals some unusual relations between the people who died together. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Some of the people who were buried in Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted may have been misidentified, according to fresh evidence. Fourteen casts of victims discovered in the remains of the Roman ...

On August 24, 79 C.E., Mount Vesuvius erupted and encased the nearby Roman city of Pompeii in ash. Today, the city is a time ...

Incredibly well preserved dinosaurs at China fossil site were thought to have been buried in huge volcanic eruptions, similar to the Mount Vesuvius that covered the city of Pompeii 2,000 years ago.

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Two of the area's most iconic locales – Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii – can be found roughly 15 miles away from central Naples. Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland ...