Excavations of Pompeii began in 1748, and although Vesuvius's eruption completely destroyed the city, the pyroclastic deposits preserved the victims, buildings and art. The victim's soft tissue ...

Some of the victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D. in Pompeii were cast in plaster to preserve the scene. New DNA studies of those victims tell a different tale than what experts had ...

[Related: Pompeii’s archaeological puzzles can be solved with a little help from chemistry.] In 79 CE , the Somma-Vesuvius volcano system erupted in southern Italy.

Recent research may have reshaped our understanding of the victims of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. For centuries, archaeologists and ...