The Pompeii archaeological park plans to limit visitor numbers to 20,000 a day and introduce personalized tickets from next week in a bid to cope with over-tourism and protect the world heritage site.

Plaster casts of calcified Pompeii residents have long been used by archaeologists to tell the stories of the last, desperate ...

Scientists conducted a DNA analysis of the remains of Pompeii residents who died during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Related: Pompeii victims died in 'extreme agony,' 2 newfound skeletons ... per the statement, confirming the Roman Empire's ...

Modern DNA analysis is rewriting the history of Pompeii, revealing unexpected truths about the lives and identities of the ...

This study also underscores the diverse and cosmopolitan nature of Pompeii's population, reflecting broader patterns of ...

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

This study also underscores the diverse and cosmopolitan nature of Pompeii’s population, reflecting broader patterns of ...

Pompeii’s unique preservation of the tragic tableaux of its citizens’ final moments has provided archaeologists with a way to ...

Researchers also confirmed Pompeii citizens came from diverse backgrounds but mainly descended from eastern Mediterranean ...