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

From maps and pickaxes, it is now possible to discover ancient relics from a distance, as in the case of a recent find.

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

Cade DuPont, Shaun Bobbitt, Bethany Terry and Rafael Villaroel — is opening a new window on the ancient Roman city of Pompeii.

backdropped by the casts of two adults and two children who died together in the house in Pompeii, at an exhibition at the ...

This week, uncover the secrets of Pompeii through ancient DNA, meet an adventurous emperor penguin, seek signs of mysterious ...

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

The Pompeii archaeological park plans to limit the number of visitors to 20,000 a day and introduce personalized tickets in a ...

A family of four was frozen in time under a staircase when the ash fell on Pompeii from the erupting volcano Mount Vesuvius ...

Modern DNA analysis is rewriting the history of Pompeii, revealing unexpected truths about the lives and identities of the ...

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

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute found that at least one, if not both of the people were men. While the true nature ...