Authorities at Pompeii in southern Italy are introducing a daily limit of 20,000 visitors as part of efforts to protect the ancient site. The measure, which will come into force from November 15 ...

Researchers focused on 14 casts undergoing restoration, extracting DNA from ... Researchers also confirmed Pompeii citizens came from diverse backgrounds but mainly descended from eastern ...

Pompeii Archaeological Park has set a new limit on visitors in an effort to cope with overtourism at the historic site. The park will only allow 20,000 visitors a day and is also introducing new ...

A new study— published in Current Biology by a team of researchers at Harvard University and the Archaeological Park of ...

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The devastation of Pompeii by the eruption of Vesuvius in ... selected from 86 casts that are currently undergoing restoration. This is no easy task, anthropologist Alissa Mittnik of Harvard ...

(Archeological Park of Pompeii) The researchers ... Mittnik noted that little had been known about the casts before the restoration and how they had been manipulated over time to support the ...

which was newly restored and re-opened to the public in the archaeological site of Pompeii, in Italy, on March 20, 2015. A new DNA analysis of Pompeii victims has challenged the stories told about ...