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

Many of Pompeii's inhabitants lost their lives as ... skeletal remains embedded in 14 of the 86 famous casts undergoing restoration. This extraction process allowed them to accurately establish ...

A recent genetic study calls for a reexamination of the identities and relationships of several individuals buried and ...

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 ...

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The ancient house, with its famed frescos and 12 mythological scenes, has been restored The House of the Vettii, known as Pompeii's Sistine Chapel, has reopened to the public for the first time in ...

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