DNA From Pompeii Victims Reveals Surprising Relationships Amidst the Chaos
Analysis of ancient DNA from the ashen casts of Pompeii victims changes presumed relationships between them, and reveals the ...
Science is revealing the true stories of Pompeii’s victims beneath the ash
People have long projected stories onto the poignant casts of Pompeii’s victims. A new study uses ancient DNA analysis to ...
New DNA evidence at Pompeii reveals surprises about identities of Vesuvius eruption victims
When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in stone for centuries. Observers see stories in the plaster casts later made ...
With DNA, Pompeii Narratives Take a Twist
In 79 A.D., a volcanic eruption engulfed a town’s residents. They weren’t all who scientists thought, newly extracted genetic ...
Pompeii DNA evidence suggests victims not as they seemed
Some of the victims buried in Pompeii following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius have been wrongly identified, new evidence ...
Dinosaurs discovered in ‘Chinese Pompeii’ actually died in extremely boring ways
Until now, scientists largely attributed the unique preservation of these fossils to a series of sudden, violent volcanic ...
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An Eruption Like Pompeii Most Likely Didn't Preserve These Dinosaur Fossils
Some of the most famous and best-preserved dinosaur fossils were thought to have been suspended in time due to a massive ...
From the Editor: Lessons from Pompeii's election graffiti
Among the things preserved at Pompeii, which was buried byMt. Vesuvius more than 1,940 years ago, are thousands of examples ...