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

New DNA evidence from Pompeii’s body casts reveals that traditional assumptions about residents’ relationships and origins ...

The 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius and its impact on Pompeii has been heavily studied by historians and archaeologists over ...

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

So it's perhaps overdue for evidence of a literal volcano — a historic natural disaster ... The hollows were filled with ...

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

Archaeologists would later use plaster to fill these voids. Experts had previously made assumptions about the victims' ...

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 ...

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 ...

New DNA analysis of skeletal remains from Pompeii reveals that victims of Vesuvius’s eruption have been wrongly identified.

The ash spewed by the volcano coated the bodies of people and animals and ... Some bones were mixed directly in with plaster ...