New findings from DNA analysis of Pompeii victims are challenging conventional ideas about the identities and relationships among those who perished in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.

Archaeologists long thought these two embracing bodies found at Pompeii were sisters, a mother and daughter, or lovers. Ancient DNA analysis revealed both to be young people, and one of them is male.

Pompeii was not a small, insular community but rather a vibrant, cosmopolitan town that reflected the broader Roman Empire's diversity and interconnectedness. The researchers argue that the diversity ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved in stone for centuries. Menu.

But DNA evidence recently published in Current Biology suggests things were not as they seem.. POMPEII, Italy – A family frozen in time by the volcanic eruption that hit Pompeii nearly two ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, ... DNA evidence showed the four were male and not related to one another, ...

Scientists were surprised to find DNA evidence that upends past assumptions on what families and communities in ancient Pompeii looked like. New research turns past assumptions upside down.

Ancient DNA has revealed surprises about the identities of some people who perished in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii after a volcanic eruption, overturning misconceptions about their genetic ...

The study builds upon research from 2022, when scientists sequenced the genome of a Pompeii victim for the first time and confirmed the possibility of retrieving ancient DNA from the scant human ...

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Ancient DNA has revealed surprises about the identities of some people who perished in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii after a volcanic eruption, overturning ...