The body was first found to be of a male, likely around 30 years of age. At first, archaeologists believed that he had ...

A new study has shattered historians' long-held assumptions about some of the people who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption in ...

Two famous victims of the volcanic eruption that devastated Pompeii 2,000 years ago, long thought to be women and dubbed the ...

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

A recent DNA study has upended long-held theories about the people who died in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, revealing ...

Fourteen miles southeast of modern Naples lies Pompeii, a city frozen in time by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius ...

The results of new DNA tests just dropped this week, and they prove that we don't know as much about Pompeii as we once ...

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

In August, archaeologists at Pompeii announced they had unearthed the remains of two more victims -- a man and a woman discovered inside what was likely the bedroom of their home, where they'd become ...

Using DNA taken from fragmented skeletal remains, researchers found an adult holding a child, long thought to have been a ...

Plan to cap number of Pompeii visitors at 20,000 a day to stop overtourism - Italian site sees record numbers and managers ...

Scientists studying the remains of people who died in the devastating Mount Vesuvius eruption that buried the ancient city of ...