A recent genetic study calls for a reexamination of the identities and relationships of several individuals buried and ...

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

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

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

DNA evidence reshapes the story of Pompeii's 79 AD eruption victims, challenging old assumptions and revealing new insights ...

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 ...

Fourteen miles southeast of modern Naples lies Pompeii, a city frozen in time by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius ...

A close-up of the image of Our Lady of Pompeii inside the Shrine of ... which depicts the Mother of God and the Child Jesus giving rosaries to St. Dominic and St. Catherine of Siena.

Genetic analysis of five individuals preserved as plaster casts in the ruins of Pompeii contradicts established beliefs about ...

Using DNA taken from fragmented skeletal remains, researchers found an adult holding a child, long thought to have been a ...

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