In popular culture, the eruption is usually depicted as an apocalyptic event with no survivors: In episodes of the TV series " Doctor Who" and " Loki," everyone in Pompeii and Herculaneum dies.

To trace the relocation of individual survivors to these and other towns in the area, Tuck scoured inscriptions from pre-eruption Pompeii for distinct Roman family names. He then identified these ...

New DNA evidence from corpses buried in Pompeii is rewriting the narratives about the people who lived there. The volcano erupted in 79 AD, releasing a 20-ft-deep layer of ash and sediment that ...

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 ...

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When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in stone for centuries. Observers see stories in the plaster casts later made ...

In 79 AD, Italy’s Mount Vesuvius exploded, raining ash and volcanic debris down on the city of Pompeii and its tens of thousands of residents. In mere minutes, the giant cloud of ash and gases ...