Nature turned to a University of Cincinnati Classics professor to explain how science is helping to inform the history of ancient Pompeii, which was

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

Analysis of ancient DNA from the ashen casts of Pompeii victims changes presumed relationships between them, and reveals the port city's socioeconomic and geographic diversity.

Modern DNA analysis is rewriting the history of Pompeii, revealing unexpected truths about the lives and identities of the ancient victims buried under ash from Mount Vesuvius's eruption in A.D. 79. Long-held assumptions about the relationships and sexes of those preserved in the Roman town have been debunked by researchers,

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

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

Now, scientists have used ancient DNA collected from the casts that have been made to better understand the Pompeii residents and their origins. What they found alters history that’s been written since Pompeii’s rediscovery in the 1700s.

The findings, which used DNA from the plaster casts of people who died in the Mt. Vesuvius eruption two millennia ago, challenge the traditional gender and familial assumptions about the Pompeiians.

The saying goes that it takes a village to raise a child, and new research out of Pompeii seems to showcase just how common this phenomenon might've been in the ancient Roman city. A new study published in the Current Biology journal explains how new DNA research from body casts in Pompeii