Alissa Mittnik from the Max Planck Institute in Germany studied new DNA evidence from the Pompeii victims, disproving past ...

Pompeii is huge. Comprising nine regions across 66 hectares it would take two to three days to see it all. Here are seven ...

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

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

A new genetic analysis of 14 bodies recovered from Pompeii is casting doubt on some of the initial interpretations of their ...

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

I love exploring the world of ancient Rome, with its grand architecture, fascinating culture, and stories of larger-than-life ...

Artifacts from the frozen city of Pompeii, which was destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., are on display ...

Victims thought to be female were male and not related to one another, showing "the story that was long spun around these individuals" was wrong, researchers said.

The exhibit concludes with what organizers describe as a "4D" film about Pompeii — "4D" because it includes fog effects and a ...

In 79 A.D., a volcanic eruption engulfed a town’s residents. They weren’t all who scientists thought, newly extracted genetic ...

Researchers have studied the DNA preserved in the skeletal remains of Pompeii volcanic eruption victims. In 79 CE, the ...