Ancient DNA rewrites the stories of people buried by volcanic eruption in Pompeii
archaeologists uncovered nearly 1,000 outlines of people, both isolated and grouped together, in houses, squares, streets, gardens and just outside the city walls. In 2015, the Archaeological Park of Pompeii began efforts to restore 86 of the 104 casts ...
People have long been fascinated by the haunting plaster casts of the bodies of people who died in Pompeii when Mount ...
Editor’s note: this article includes a photograph of a plaster cast of a person who died at Pompeii. Bits of human bone ...
Casts were created from the voids in the late 1800s. Researchers also confirmed Pompeii citizens came from diverse ...
People have long projected stories onto the poignant casts of Pompeii’s victims. A new study uses ancient DNA analysis to ...
Analysis of ancient DNA from the ashen casts of Pompeii victims changes presumed relationships between them, and reveals the ...
Related: Pompeii victims died in 'extreme agony,' 2 newfound skeletons reveal The casts allowed scholars to study the ...
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Pompeii DNA evidence leads to surprising new discovery about victimsIn mere minutes, the giant cloud of ash and gases killed an estimated 2,000 people, many of whom were unearthed more than a ...
Centuries on and it turns out that long-held assumptions about some of the people of Pompeii should not have been set in ...
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