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

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

Plaster casts of Pompeii’s victims preserve moments of human connection as the A.D. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried the ...

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

Pompeii’s unique preservation of the tragic tableaux of ... Traditionally, researchers assumed the bracelet-wearing person to ...

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

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

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

Victims thought to be female were male and not related to one another, showing "the story that was long spun around these individuals" was wrong, researchers said.

A study published Thursday retold some famous stories about Pompeii citizens before they died from the eruption of Mount ...

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

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