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

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

Pompeii Archaeological Park near Naples will set a limit on the amount of people who are visiting the ancient location after ...

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

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

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

The preserved Roman city of Pompeii will have new visitor limits to combat overtourism and protect the archeological park.

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

New DNA evidence challenges the story of Pompeii's Two Maidens, once thought to be female relatives, scientists now call them gay lovers.

Incredibly well preserved dinosaurs at China fossil site were thought to have been buried in huge volcanic eruptions, similar to the Mount Vesuvius that covered the city of Pompeii 2,000 years ago.

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

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