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

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

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

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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 ...

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

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 ...

The octogenarian stabbed the hitchhiker in the back after she refused his request for "sexual contact," according to court ...

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

Plaster casts of calcified Pompeii residents have long been used by archaeologists to tell the stories of the last, desperate ...