Researchers focused on 14 casts undergoing restoration, extracting DNA from ... genetic relationships between the victims. A view of Pompeii, a buried and ruined Roman city near modern Naples ...

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

Plaster casts of calcified Pompeii residents have long been used by archaeologists to tell the stories of the last, desperate ...

Pompeii celebrates the "International Day of Persons with Disabilities" with an important recognition that makes it the first ...

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

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 ...

(CN) — In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying Pompeii under layers of ash and freezing the ... DNA and strontium isotopes from 14 of the 86 casts currently undergoing restoration, researchers have ...

[Related: Pompeii’s archaeological puzzles can be ... They focused on 14 of 86 casts that are undergoing restoration, with the goal of using the DNA to learn as much as they could about these ...

Pompeii was destroyed in 79 AD ... The third year, he invited the Redemptorist Fathers to hold a two-week mission. In preparation, he fully restored the little church. The mission, blessed by the ...

(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 ...

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 ...