So far, one of the bodies has been confirmed as male ... used to agree that the victims died from being suffocated in ash clouds. POMPEII was once a very prosperous ancient Roman city on the ...

The ash spewed by the volcano coated the bodies of people and animals and encased buildings, monuments, mosaics, frescoes, sculptures and other artifacts in Pompeii and other surrounding towns.

Since excavations of the ruins of Pompeii began in the 1700s, more than 100 casts of the victims’ bodies have been made by pouring liquid plaster in the voids left by the destruction of their ...

Excavations first began to unearth the forgotten city in 1748, but it wasn’t until 1863 that archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli developed a method to make plaster casts of some of the Pompeii victims.

Pompeii was home to around 20,000 people when it was buried under ash and volcanic glass during ... was like in the city before the disaster. The bodies were found in a small bedroom that was ...

Drawing on multiple studies demonstrating that it is possible to retrieve DNA from both human and animal remains in Pompeii, they managed to extract genetic information from some of those plaster ...

raining ash and volcanic debris down on the city of Pompeii and its tens of thousands of residents. In mere minutes, the giant cloud of ash and gases killed an estimated 2,000 people, many of whom ...

Plaster casts of Pompeii’s victims preserve moments of human connection as the A.D. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried the city in ash. There’s a family of four — including a mother ...

Scientists uncovered a mold from a mountain top in Morocco, finding the most pristine specimen of a trilobite they dubbed 'Pompeii ... The ash preserved the entire body of the trilobite and ...