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

Ancient DNA provides an insight into Pompeii life and its residents, contradicting what we thought we knew about the small ...

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

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

DNA testing of some inhabitants of the buried city of Pompeii has found popular narratives around their identities and relationships are largely wrong, a study finds. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in ...

sent to Pompeii from across the Roman Empire. “It’s always good when we have new data,” Gallello said. “This opens again ...

In mere minutes, the giant cloud of ash and gases killed an estimated 2,000 people, many of whom were unearthed more than a ...

Two embracing individuals from the ruins of Pompeii. (Archaeological Park of Pompeii ... which in turn helps us ...

Despite its unusually small size, the newly unearthed House of Phaedra is covered in elaborate frescos depicting mythological ...