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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The earthquakes and violent eruption completely buried the inhabitants of the small Roman town of Pompeii. Volcanic ash covered and preserved many of the bodies. The remains of the town were ...

Ash and volcanic rock that covered the people's bodies preserved their final moments. In the 1880s, archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli made plaster casts of 104 of the Pompeii victims by pouring ...

and preserved as undistorted three-dimensional molds within fine volcanic ash, not unlike the human bodies entombed at Pompeii in Italy by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. We scanned the ...

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.