New DNA evidence rewrites long-told stories of people in ancient Pompeii
FILE – Jewelry found in the ruins of a house in Pompeii are displayed, backdropped by the casts of two adults and two children who died together in the house in Pompeii, at the exhibition, “Life and death Pompeii and Herculaneum,” at the British Museum in central London, March 26, 2013.
Pompeii DNA evidence contradicts long-held assumptions about victims buried in ash
Pompeii's victims were later immortalized by archaeologists ... highlighting the mobility of people and the multicultural nature of the Roman Empire. Before the eruption, which lasted for more than 24 hours and had the power of thousands of nuclear bombs ...
Pompeii’s unique preservation of the tragic tableaux of its citizens’ final moments has provided archaeologists with a way ...
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 ...
This study also underscores the diverse and cosmopolitan nature of Pompeii’s population, reflecting broader patterns of ...
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Pompeii Victims Weren’t Who We Thought They Were, DNA Analysis RevealsThe surprising identities of some of the doomed inhabitants of ancient Pompeii have been revealed by a new analysis of their ...
People have long projected stories onto the poignant casts of Pompeii’s victims. A new study uses ancient DNA analysis to ...
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Pompeii DNA study reshapes ancient kinship and originsThis study also underscores the diverse and cosmopolitan nature of Pompeii's population, reflecting broader patterns of ...
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Two famous victims of the volcanic eruption that devastated Pompeii 2,000 years ago, long thought to be women and dubbed the ...
In 79 A.D., a volcanic eruption engulfed a town’s residents. They weren’t all who scientists thought, newly extracted genetic ...
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