New DNA evidence from the ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii reveal that many of the presumptuous narratives about the charred victims are entirely false, according to a new study. Researchers ...

Over 1,900 years later, new genetic research is rewriting ... The researchers argue that the diversity within Pompeii highlights the value of viewing ancient societies through a multidisciplinary lens ...

A new study— published in Current Biology by a team of researchers at Harvard University and the Archaeological Park of ...

Now, scientists have used ancient DNA collected from the casts that have been made to better understand the Pompeii residents and their origins. What they found alters history that’s been ...

But new DNA evidence suggests things were not as they ... Researchers also confirmed Pompeii citizens came from diverse backgrounds but mainly descended from eastern Mediterranean immigrants ...

In 79 AD, Italy’s Mount Vesuvius exploded, raining ash and volcanic debris down on the city of Pompeii and its tens of ...

But new DNA evidence suggests things were not as they ... ancestry and genetic relationships between the victims. FILE – A view of Pompeii, a buried and ruined Roman city near modern Naples ...