Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii upends long-held …
2024年11月8日 · 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...
New DNA evidence rewrites long-told stories of people in ancient Pompeii
2024年11月7日 · 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 human remains that still exist.
DNA Evidence Is Rewriting the Stories of Victims Who Perished in ...
2024年11月12日 · After analyzing DNA from ancient skeletal material fused to the plaster casts, researchers concluded that none of these victims are related.
New DNA evidence upends assumptions about Pompeii victims
2024年11月9日 · The findings, which used DNA from the plaster casts of people who died in the Mt. Vesuvius eruption two millennia ago, challenge the traditional gender and familial assumptions about the...
A DNA Discovery Shatters the Truth About Pompeii’s Famous …
6 天之前 · Some of the victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D. in Pompeii were cast in plaster to preserve the scene. New DNA studies of those victims tell a different tale than what experts had previously speculated. Common interpretations of three well-known relationships were proven false by the scientific study.
Pompeii, DNA research, victims ethnicity, family connections
23 小时之前 · Researchers from institutions including Harvard University and the University of Florence, working under a study published in Current Biology, were able to extract DNA from bone fragments embedded in the casts. This genetic data has provided new insights into the identities, family relationships, and even ancestry of some of the Pompeii victims.
Pompeii DNA Overturns Long-Held Assumptions About Its Victims
2024年11月7日 · A new analysis of DNA retrieved from the victims of Pompeii reveals our assumptions about them were wrong – a discovery that is giving us insight into the bustling life of Pompeii, before a volcano snuffed it out.
First DNA from Pompeii body casts illuminates who victims were
2024年11月7日 · Bits of human bone recovered from Pompeii, Italy, have yielded DNA from people who died during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius — and the genetic data are challenging old assumptions about the ...
Pompeii DNA evidence contradicts long-held assumptions about …
2024年11月8日 · New DNA analysis of skeletal remains in the doomed Roman town has revealed that some of the victims of Mount Vesuvius’s eruption in A.D. 79 have been wrongly identified, highlighting how much...
DNA reveals new stories about Pompeii’s victims - Popular Science
2024年11月7日 · A new genetic analysis of 14 bodies recovered from Pompeii is casting doubt on some of the initial interpretations of their identities before the cataclysmic volcanic eruption. A team of...