Drawing on multiple studies demonstrating that it is possible to retrieve DNA from both human and animal remains in Pompeii, ...

In the ruins of Pompeii, visitors aren’t only able to see the houses, frescos and artifacts of the ancient city’s people.

Excavations first began to unearth the forgotten city in 1748, but it wasn’t until 1863 that archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli developed a method to make plaster casts of some of the Pompeii victims.

On loan from the Naples National Archeological Museum and the Archeological Park of Pompeii, the artifacts include statues of ...

Since excavations of the ruins of Pompeii began in the 1700s, more than 100 casts of the victims’ bodies have been made by pouring liquid plaster in the voids left by the destruction of their ...

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

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Researchers have studied the DNA preserved in the skeletal remains of Pompeii volcanic eruption victims. In 79 CE, the ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in ...