Pompeii’s unique preservation of the tragic tableaux of its citizens’ final moments has provided archaeologists with a way to understand what life was like during the Roman Empire. Located about 14 miles (22.5 kilometers) southeast of Naples in what ...

New DNA analysis of skeletal remains from Pompeii reveals that victims of Vesuvius’s eruption have been wrongly identified.

People have long projected stories onto the poignant casts of Pompeii’s victims. A new study uses ancient DNA analysis to reveal their actual lives.

This new study probed the DNA evidence that has been taken from some of these bodies. The team used the same strontium isotopes that were used to date the DNA samples to get a better understanding of the diversity and origins of Pompeii’s residents.

A family frozen in time by the volcanic eruption that hit Pompeii nearly two millennia ago. A mother, a father, and two children…one of the many stories invented by observers of the plaster casts made of the victims of the tragedy that struck the ancient town.

Plaster casts of calcified Pompeii residents have long been used by archaeologists to tell the stories of the last, desperate moments of ancient Romans before they were buried and preserved in pyroclastic ash from Mount Vesuvius in A.

Scientists conducted a DNA analysis of the remains of Pompeii residents who died during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. The results provided groundbreaking insights into their origins and familial relationships.

Newly released researchers suggests that certain victims were of a different gender than archaeologists long believed.

Scientists conducted a DNA analysis of the remains of Pompeii's inhabitants, who perished during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. These results have provided groundbreaking information about their origins and family relationships.

Scientists have conducted a DNA analysis on the remains of the residents of Pompeii who perished during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The results have provided groundbreaking insights into their origins and familial relationships.