A new study— published in Current Biology by a team of researchers at Harvard University and the Archaeological Park of ...

The body was first found to be of a male, likely around 30 years of age. At first, archaeologists believed that he had ...

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

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

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

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens ... relied on genetic material preserved for nearly two millennia. After Mount Vesuvius erupted ...

A view of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city near modern Naples in Italy, is seen in 1979. An estimated 2,000 people died in the city during the eruption of the nearby Mount Vesuvius. ((AP Photo, File)) ...

In mere minutes, the giant cloud of ash and gases killed an estimated 2,000 people, many of whom were unearthed more than a thousand years later. Their decomposed bodies were preserved by the ash, and ...

Some of the victims buried in Pompeii following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius have been wrongly identified, new evidence suggests. Researchers used DNA testing on 14 casts of victims found in the ...

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 ...

Incredibly well preserved dinosaurs at China fossil site were thought to have been buried in huge volcanic eruptions, similar to the Mount Vesuvius that covered the city of Pompeii 2,000 years ago.