This week, uncover the secrets of Pompeii through ancient DNA, meet an adventurous emperor penguin, seek signs of mysterious ...

Editor’s note: this article includes a photograph of a plaster cast of a person who died at Pompeii. Bits of human bone ...

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

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

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

Analysis of ancient DNA from the ashen casts of Pompeii victims changes presumed relationships between them, and reveals the ...

Scientists studying the remains of people who died in the devastating Mount Vesuvius eruption that buried the ancient city of ...

The devastation of Pompeii by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE is one of the best-recorded disasters in human history.

"Pompeii: The Exhibition" opens Nov. 15 at Graceland, featuring a collection artifacts from the ancient Roman city that was ...

A new genetic analysis of 14 bodies recovered from Pompeii is casting doubt on some of the initial interpretations of their identities before the cataclysmic volcanic eruption. A team of ...

Plaster casts are blank canvases for friends and family to post their get well messages. But if it’s holiday season, adding blinky LED lights to them is called for. When [Dr Lucy Rogers] hurt ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, the volcano spewed hot, lethal gases and ash into the ... but it wasn’t until 1863 that archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli developed a method to make plaster casts ...