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

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

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

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

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

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

International researchers analyzed the genetic material of casts on victims of the Vesuvius eruption. Their kinship and ...

A volcanic eruption destroyed the Roman city of Pompeii in 79 AD, but an avalanche of tourists has caused officials to ...

The findings, which used DNA from the plaster casts of people who died in the Mt. Vesuvius eruption two millennia ago, ...