Alissa Mittnik from the Max Planck Institute in Germany studied new DNA evidence from the Pompeii victims, disproving past ...

Ash raining down from the volcano blanketed Pompeii and surrounding cities, preserving frescoes, buildings and citizens where ...

Some of the most famous and best-preserved dinosaur fossils were thought to have been suspended in time due to a massive ...

Analysis of ancient DNA from the ashen casts of Pompeii victims changes presumed relationships between them, and reveals the ...

Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii shows that people found holding one another beneath the volcanic ash weren’t related in ...

An ancient-DNA analysis of victims in Pompeii who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption reveals some unusual relations between the people who died together.

Genetic research on the bones within Pompeii victims’ casts shed light on the multiethnic society of the city and on the ...

Nearly 4 million people visited the ruins of the Roman city of Pompeii in 2023, a third more than the previous year.

In recent times areas around Naples have seen a flurry of activities as government agencies conduct drills to make citizens ...

The world-famous Pompeii archaeological park introduced on Friday a daily limit of 20,000 visitors, the latest Italian ...

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