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It is now believed that the two Pompeii victims, known as "The Two Maidens", might have actually been young male gay lovers. So far, one of the bodies has been confirmed as male. At first ...

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 new genetic analysis of 14 bodies recovered from Pompeii is casting doubt on some of the initial interpretations of their identities before the cataclysmic volcanic eruption. A team of ...

Drawing on multiple studies demonstrating that it is possible to retrieve DNA from both human and animal remains in Pompeii, they managed to extract genetic information from some of those plaster ...

Pompeii was home to around 20,000 people when ... the picture of what life was like in the city before the disaster. The bodies were found in a small bedroom that was being used as a temporary ...

Pompeii DNA reveals truth about victims Remains recovered from plaster casts of five people who died in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius have overturned some old assumptions about who they were .

A new investigation into one of the most harrowing gravesites of the 79AD eruption where more than 55 bodies were found cowering in a warehouse at a site that has long baffled archaeologists While ...

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