New DNA evidence from the ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii reveal that many of the presumptuous narratives about the charred victims are entirely false, according to a new study. Researchers ...

New DNA evidence from Pompeii’s body casts reveals that traditional assumptions about residents’ relationships and origins ...

But new DNA evidence suggests things were not as they ... Researchers also confirmed Pompeii citizens came from diverse backgrounds but mainly descended from eastern Mediterranean immigrants ...

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

Now, scientists have used ancient DNA collected from the casts that have been made to better understand the Pompeii residents and their origins. What they found alters history that’s been ...

Jewelry found in the ruins of a house in Pompeii are displayed, backdropped by the casts of two adults and two children who died together in the house in Pompeii. Credit: AP New DNA evidence from ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the Roman city of Pompeii nearly 2,000 years ago ... and two sisters embracing in their final moments. New DNA evidence has upended some of those assumptions ...

But new DNA evidence suggests things were not as they ... ancestry and genetic relationships between the victims. FILE - A view of Pompeii, a buried and ruined Roman city near modern Naples ...

New DNA Evidence Rewrites Long-Told Stories of People in Ancient Pompeii When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in ...

But new DNA evidence suggests things were not as they seem — and ... Researchers also confirmed Pompeii citizens came from diverse backgrounds but mainly descended from eastern Mediterranean ...