Two famous victims of the volcanic eruption that devastated Pompeii 2,000 years ago, long thought to be women and dubbed the “Two Maidens”, may have in fact been a heterosexual couple ...

Now, many argue that the bodies belonged to a same-sex couple and not two sisters or a mother and child. When Mount Vesuvius erupted 2,000 years ago in 79 AD, the city of Pompeii was obliterated, ...

Following the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which destroyed the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in 79 AD, the bodies of numerous victims were ... called the House of the Cryptoporticus, a ...

New DNA analysis challenges existing hypotheses about the identities and relationships of victims found in Pompeii after the ...

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People have long been fascinated by the haunting plaster casts of the bodies of people who died in Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE. Archaeologists have presented certain popular ...

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