A new study has shattered historians' long-held assumptions about some of the people who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption in ...

Last week, with the use of DNA, researchers revealed that long-held assumptions missed the mark, providing tantalizing ...

People have long projected stories onto the poignant casts of Pompeii’s victims. A new study uses ancient DNA analysis to ...

Fourteen miles southeast of modern Naples lies Pompeii, a city frozen in time by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius ...

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

Nature turned to a University of Cincinnati Classics professor to explain how science is helping to inform the history of ...

Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year AD 79 ... An administrator and poet called Pliny the younger watched the disaster unfold ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 ... more about the remains of people at Pompeii can help others appreciate those who ...

After Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed the Roman city in 79 A.D., bodies buried in mud and ash eventually decomposed, leaving spaces where they used to be. Casts were created from the voids in the ...

So it's perhaps overdue for evidence of a literal volcano — a historic natural disaster — to hit the campus of Elvis ... the ...

Some of the people who died in Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted almost 2000 years ago may have been misidentified, new ...

Two famous victims of the volcanic eruption that devastated Pompeii 2,000 years ago, long thought to be women and dubbed the ...