Combining DNA analysis, archeological techniques, and historical records overturns some assumptions of the people of Pompeii.

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

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

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

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

DNA evidence reshapes the story of Pompeii's 79 AD eruption victims, challenging old assumptions and revealing new insights ...

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

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

After Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed the Roman city in 79 A.D ... They hoped to determine the sex, ancestry and genetic relationships between the victims. There were several surprises in "the ...

The bodies, later immortalized by plaster casts, inspired narratives about who the victims were: for example ... the sex and ...

have yielded DNA from people who died during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius — and the genetic data are challenging old assumptions about the victims’ identities and relationships 1.