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

In 79 CE, the active volcanic system in southern Italy known as Somma-Vesuvius erupted, burying the small Roman town of ...

This new study probed the DNA evidence that has been taken from some of these bodies. The team used the same strontium ...

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

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

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

In 79 A.D., a volcanic eruption engulfed a town’s residents. They weren’t all who scientists thought, newly extracted genetic ...

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

In mere minutes, the giant cloud of ash and gases killed an estimated 2,000 people, many of whom were unearthed more than a ...

Centuries on and it turns out that long-held assumptions about some of the people of Pompeii should not have been set in ...

A family frozen in time by the volcanic eruption that hit Pompeii nearly two millennia ago. A mother, a father, and two ...

"Monitoring cryptic species and monitoring at scale is a challenge which airborne eDNA may be able to address." ...