Editor’s note: this article includes a photograph of a plaster cast of a person who died at Pompeii. Bits of human bone recovered ... t really know it from the body cast themselves.

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. Plus, mitochondria can split into two ...

The casts were made by applying plaster directly to the faces of the sitters, infusing the material with skin and hair cells Hundreds of plaster casts of transgender and non-binary people have ...

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 ...

A recent genetic study calls for a reexamination of the identities and relationships of several individuals buried and ...