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 ...

The Archaeological Park of Pompeii is a popular attraction for sightseers visiting ... These plaster casts are all that remains of the victims of Mount Vesuvius’ infamous eruption in 79 AD, which ...

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 ...

Some of the people who were buried in Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted may have been misidentified, according to fresh evidence. Fourteen casts of victims discovered in the remains of the Roman ...

more work is needed to fully understand Pompeii’s past, including genetic analysis. Research is ongoing at the site, and scientists can use both the casts and skeletons of the victims to better ...

But DNA evidence recently published in Current Biology suggests things were not as they seem. POMPEII, Italy (KMID/KPEJ) – A family frozen in time by the volcanic eruption that hit Pompeii ...