But ancient DNA analysis has revealed that those preferred narratives were not entirely accurate and may reflect certain ...

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

Ancient DNA has revealed surprises about the identities of some people who perished in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii ...

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

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

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

In 79 CE, the active volcanic system in southern Italy known as Somma-Vesuvius erupted, burying the small Roman town of ...

An ancient-DNA analysis of victims in Pompeii who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption reveals some unusual relations between the ...

This new study probed the DNA evidence that has been taken from some of these bodies. The team used the same strontium ...

A team of microbiologists and virologists at Wuhan University, working with colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ...

As reported Thursday in the journal Current Biology, the DNA evidence shows that the identities and relationships of the ...

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